GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A lifelong history buff -- especially of presidential, military and football history -- Ron Wolf tried out a new type on Tuesday: revisionist.

After his retirement as the Green Bay Packers' general manager in 2001, Wolf had said several times that one of his biggest regrets was that he felt he hadn’t surrounded quarterback Brett Favre with sufficient talent at wide receiver. Sure, the Packers had won Super Bowl XXXI, but in the years after the Hall of Fame GM called it quits, Wolf felt he’d failed his soon-to-be Hall of Fame QB and three-time league MVP.

Evidently he’s gotten over it.

“I’m not sure why I ever said that,” Wolf said in a phone interview from his home in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday morning. “In retrospect, when you look at the cast of characters Favre had around him, he had some exceptional receivers.”

Whether that’s true is neither here nor there. The call to Wolf had been prompted by the current Packers general manager Ted Thompson’s decision to take California wide receiver Trevor Davis in the fifth round, adding him to the already deep receiver group that quarterback Aaron Rodgers has at his disposal with a healthy Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, Davante Adams, Ty Montgomery, Jared Abbrederis and Jeff Janis.

After the Davis pick, Wolf’s son Eliot, the Packers’ director of football operations, was asked whether the team’s draft philosophy takes into consideration the importance of giving Rodgers, who is likely to join Ron Wolf and Favre in the Hall, as many weapons as possible.

“Definitely,” Eliot Wolf replied. “Any time you can add a weapon, especially down here in the fifth round, that's a good thing.”

So however the elder Wolf truly feels -- whether he feels he didn’t do enough for Favre back then or if he feels in retrospect that he got Favre ample help at receiver -- his underlying believe remains: When you have a great quarterback, it’s your job as a general manager to ply him with the talent to succeed.

“I think any time you have a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre and you have a bona fide weapon as a receiver, then you’ve got a good chance of winning,” Wolf said.

There’s no denying that Thompson has invested heavily in Rodgers’ weapons, much more so than Wolf did for Favre.

In nine drafts in Green Bay -- the 2001 draft was Wolf’s in name only, as coach Mike Sherman had already been named his successor as GM and ran that draft accordingly -- Wolf drafted 14 wide receivers. But after inheriting 1988 first-round pick Sterling Sharpe from the previous regime, Wolf never used a first-round pick on the position and picked only three wide receivers in the top three rounds: Robert Brooks (third round, 1992), Antonio Freeman (third round, 1995) and Derrick Mayes (second round, 1996).

Thompson hasn’t spent a first-round pick on a wide receiver during his 12 drafts with the Packers, either. And in three more drafts, he’s picked only two more wide receivers (16) total.

But it’s the quality of the picks he’s used that shows his commitment to giving his quarterback a strong wide receiver arsenal, drafting seven receivers in the first three rounds.

With Favre as his starter from 2005 through 2007 and Rodgers as his starter since 2008, Thompson has taken five wide receivers in the second round: Terrence Murphy (2005), Greg Jennings (2006), Nelson (2008), Cobb (2011) and Adams (2014). He also used third-round picks on James Jones (2007) and Montgomery (2015). Although he didn’t pick a receiver in the 2009, 2010 and 2012 drafts, Thompson has picked seven total receivers in the past four drafts.

The Packers were reminded of how quickly receiver depth can evaporate last season, with Nelson out for the year after a preseason knee injury and Rodgers finding himself without his top four receivers from the opening day of training camp (Nelson, Cobb, Adams, Montgomery) because of injury less than a quarter into the team’s season-ending playoff loss at Arizona.

“[We] feel really good about the wide receiver group,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “I think getting the health of that unit back will be the biggest improvement. So we feel very good about the wide receiver group.”

Asked whether getting Rodgers more weapons was important, McCarthy argued that improving the offensive line is just as vital, saying, “It's important to protect him first, make sure you've got the people up front, and run the football. ... To me, it all plays in and everything is important.”

And for Thompson, that’s what he wants his quarterback to have -- everything.

“A great quarterback’s a great thing to have. There are teams that struggle at that position. We’re extraordinarily grateful and lucky to be where we are,” Thompson said. “[But] do you put any more emphasis [on getting him receivers]? I don’t know.

“Obviously, if you’re sitting in my chair, then you probably are going to want to get another offensive lineman or two when you have a chance to during the job, which we did. You’re probably going to want to get another speed receiver if you can, which we did. And you want other things, too.”