"I feel pretty comfortable with myself," an undrafted cornerback said following a win in the preseason finale against the Rams. "My teammates said I've been playing good this preseason so we'll see what happens."

Waiting to see what happens could be a nerve-racking task, but Lenzy Pipkins must wait no longer.

If you had to go back and find a miscue in Pipkins' preseason performance that would've played a determining factor in whether or not he somehow beats the odds and makes the Packers' roster, it'd be tough. Very tough.

However, you wouldn't have to look further than the road trip to Denver in week three.

In the third quarter, Broncos quarterback Kyle Sloter looked right for Hunter Sharp. In a four-play drive, Pipkins gave up a 20-yard completion and a 21-yard touchdown reception in back-to-back plays. In the process of the touchdown, Pipkins was called for defensive pass interference.

Adding insult to injury, the catch wasn't even contested. Pipkins turned his head late and didn't even get to go airborne and use his 33½ vertical reach to play the ball. 

If there were ever a time for Pipkins to fall out of the race between him, Raysean Pringle, Donatello Brown and Josh Hawkins, it was that moment. 

Brown, who had a stellar fourth preseason game.

Pringle, who flashed periodically throughout the exhibition season.

Hawkins, who has a spot all but solidified after making the 53-man roster a year ago and becoming a useful component for special teams coach Ron Zook.

In a sequence of two plays, any remembrance of Pipkins being named to Pro Football Focus' Team of the Week for week one after a strong performance against the Eagles was all but a distant memory.

 ^{Pipkins (41) tackles Eagles receiver Greg Ward (89) in the Packers' preseason opener. (Green Bay Press-Gazette/USA TODAY Sports)}

  In that game, Pipkins was on the field for 32 snaps in coverage and allowed a couple of catches amounting to four yards. He also had three tackles—zero of them missed, a pass breakup and a hit on the quarterback, according to PFF.

Opportunities are scarce in the preseason if you're fighting for a job. Opportunities are almost nonexistent if you're an undrafted cornerback.

But, if you're an undrafted cornerback signed to the Green Bay Packers, whose 31st-ranked pass defense in 2016 saw five corners go down with injury, your chances just got a little better.

That may have been a major attribution as to why the Packers carried Pipkins as one of their 53-best players on Saturday after announcing their final roster.

Pipkins would've been a prime addition to the Packers' 10-man practice squad, but instead, in the eyes of general manager Ted Thompson, Brown was best suited there and Pipkins the active roster. Clearly, the Packers looked past the brief lapse in play against the Broncos, and rightfully so.

Nothing stood out in terms of agility for Pipkins at his Oklahoma State Pro Day. At 6-0, 190 pounds, the former Cowboy clocked in with a 4.46 for his 40-yard dash. The physique on paper provided the Packers with a lot more to look at than just his Pro Day numbers, and that's not necessarily saying much.

Pipkins played in 30 games at Louisiana-Monroe before finishing his senior season at Oklahoma State, registering two interceptions and 106 tackles in three seasons. He also displayed the ability to blitz from the slot and make tackles in the backfield—he had seven tackles for a loss in the same span.

^{Pipkins celebrates after tipping the ball in a game against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions. (Rob Ferguson/USA TODAY Sports)}

His lone year at Oklahoma State saw him play in 11 games, grabbing his third career interception and finishing with his second-highest single season tackle total (38) in his collegiate career.

As alumni, he joins offensive guard Lane Taylor as the only players on the Packers' roster to have played for the school. Pipkins just got there four years after Taylor had already begun his NFL career.

Now, Pipkins is more than just some undrafted corner who played one season in the Big 12 Conference. He's the seventh cornerback addition to the Packers' roster this season and the second undrafted cornerback to make the 53-man roster in two years.

Both he and Hawkins hope to follow the success stories of Sam Shields and Tramon Williams, two undrafted success stories whose potential was fully brought out with cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt Jr. There's also been undrafted failures at the position in recent years, such as Makinton Dorleant and Robertson Daniel.

It's just a matter of finding their respective place.

"Everybody has a place, and how they transition is important to get guys acclimated," head coach Mike McCarthy said before Monday's practice.

Pipkins shouldn't see the field in 2017, and if he does, the Packers have much more to worry about than whether or not Pipkins is taking up a roster spot for some other free agent addition that fans will likely incessantly drool over.

"Any time you're playing with young guys, you want to see them in a lot of situations, and how you build gameplans and where you want to incorporate them. You're not going to ask them to run the whole gameplan, they're not ready for that. ... You have to get them ready to play in regular season games and get them ready to have a winning performance."

He shouldn't factor into the winning formula by any means, but cornerback is one of the positions where you can never have too much talent, and that's where Pipkins does factor into the equation.

In 2015, the Packers were coming off a year in which they suffered vital losses to their receiving corps. As a result, they entered the following season with seven receivers. The same domino effect could be playing out before our very eyes, as the Packers were decimated at cornerback last season as stated above.

That alone may very well be the only reason Pipkins made the final roster, but even despite this, there must be some kind of upside to his game worth developing if he beat out both Brown and Pringle.

"At the end of the day it's what we all want," McCarthy continued. "There's always conversations in any room, whether you're sitting here in the staff room with all of the coaches or sitting in the staff room with all of the personnel staff. 

"When you get down to who stays and who may be released, it's never 100 percent. That's the nature of this business."