It’s time for kickoff. Today, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions play once again on Thanksgiving Day with NFC North positioning at stake.

Both teams closely trail the 8-3 Chicago Bears in the division race, with the 7-3-1 Packers a half-game behind and the 7-4 Lions one game back. Should the Bears lose to the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday, the winner of today’s game would take the lead in the division, either outright or via head-to-head tiebreaker.

The last time these two teams played on Thanksgiving Day, in 2023, the Packers pulled off a memorable 29-22 victory despite being...

Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar writes about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we focus on Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson, who showed up like never before in Green Bay’s crucial win over the Minnesota Vikings last Sunday.

There is no doubt that Josh Jacobs is the Green Bay Packers’ premier running back. This season when healthy, Jacobs has run the ball 169 times for 648 yards, 11 touchdowns, 32 forced missed tackles, and seven runs of 15 or more...

Yesterday, the Green Bay Packers ruled out receiver Savion Williams, defensive end Lukas Van Ness, and defensive tackle Karl Brooks, and listed receiver Matthew Golden, linebacker Quay Walker, cornerback Keisean Nixon, and cornerback Nate Hobbs as questionable against the Detroit Lions due to injuries. 90 minutes before kickoff on Thanksgiving, the Packers officially ruled out all those players, except Nixon, for action.

Green Bay did a lot of roster backfilling yesterday, so this was expected. The team cut kicker Lucas Havrisik, promoted receiver Will Sheppard from the practice squad and elevated two other practice squadders (linebacker Jamon Johnson and safety...

Fire up the oven for the turkey, get to mashing those potatoes, and prep the pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving Day is here, and that means a whole day of food, friends, family, and football.

As usual, the NFL has three courses of football to entertain us throughout the day, starting with the Green Bay Packers, who play on Thanksgiving for the third straight season. After hosting the Miami Dolphins in the night game a year ago, the Packers are back in Detroit in today’s early game, giving football fans a fantastic first dish.

After that big NFC North rivalry game, the...

Welcome to Thanksgiving Day, a holiday that the Green Bay Packers have started to make annual appearances on once again in recent years. Today, the Packers will play on Turkey Day for the third consecutive season as they take on their NFC North rivals, the Detroit Lions.

The Packers last played in Detroit on Thanksgiving in 2023, when they defeated Detroit in an upset 29-22. Last season, the Packers hosted a Thanksgiving game for the first time since 2015, beating the Miami Dolphins 30-17 in the night game.

Today, though, they are back in Detroit once again to renew a...

Thank you to Pride of Detroit’s Ryan Mathews, who stopped by to answer some questions about the Detroit Lions ahead of the team’s Thanksgiving matchup against the Green Bay Packers. If you want to read the sister article to this one, where Mathews asked me questions about the Packers, you can find that HERE.

Obviously, this game is going to be huge for both teams. They’re both fighting for their playoff lives right now, as only three of the Packers, Lions, Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers are likely to make the postseason. The team that finishes the worst down...

The Detroit Lions are still a good team and may very well beat the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving, but last year, they were a true juggernaut, and now they’re not. They’re 7-4, and their Pythagorean record is also 7-4, and so this is exactly how good they really are.

So, what happened? The various injuries and suspensions to their various dirty safeties are certainly a factor on defense. The loss of Ben Johnson to the Bears has been a negative as well, though the Lions’ offense still leads the NFC in points. But I think the big factor is...

It’s not April Fools. This is actually happening. ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that three-time All-Pro center Frank Ragnow, who retired back in June, is coming out of retirement for the Detroit Lions. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport added that “he’s in shape and ready to roll sooner, rather than later.”

Notably, the Lions’ current center, Graham Glasgow, has been a non-participant in walkthroughs this week (Detroit has yet to announce its Wednesday participation). So will Ragnow play on Thanksgiving? Your guess is as good as mine, but there is an opening at the center position, and Ragnow already knows the...

Wednesday was a busy day for the Green Bay Packers, who had their only full practice of the week, will travel to Detroit and made some alterations to their 53-man roster. First of all, let’s get into the injuries.

Packers ruled out vs. Lions

• WR Jayden Reed
• WR Savion Williams
• DE Lukas Van Ness
• DT Karl Brooks

Earlier this week, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said that he believed that Jayden Reed would be suiting up for the Packers on Thanksgiving. That was wrong, as Reed remains on the injured reserve, working through his 21-day...

Edgerrin Cooper was the most exciting man on the Packers’ defense in 2024.

The Packers introduced him into the lineup slowly last season, but every glimpse was tantalizing. And when they finally turned him loose, he was everything fans — and defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley — could have hoped for. He was fast, aggressive and made plays for the Packers left and right.

It wasn’t just fans that noticed his success. Despite starting just four games and logging just 491 snaps, Cooper received an All-Pro vote and finished sixth in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting. Even in his limited...

For the third time in his NFL career, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love will get a chance to show a national audience what he’s capable of on Thanksgiving. This year, Love and the Packers once again face the Detroit Lions in Thursday’s early game.

The early results on the holiday have been terrific for Love. Whether Toyotathon is responsible for his Thanksgiving performances remains to be seen, but the 27-year-old has gone 2-0 on Turkey Day with an absurd 127.2 passer rating.

Love is off to another hot start this season, leading all full-time starters in EPA per dropback,...

The Packers did something pretty rare the last time they faced the Lions: they managed to catch an NFL team completely off guard.

The Lions were completely unprepared for the Packers’ defense in Week 1, and the Packers wreaked havoc on the Lions’ passing attack as a result. All they had to do to achieve that outcome was trade multiple first round picks and a keystone defender for one of the best pass rushers in the league and pay that pass rusher a king’s ransom for his services.

Simple, right?

I’m oversimplifying here, but I don’t think we can overstate...