Green Bay Packers safety Javon Bullard has been dealing with a nagging ankle injury recently, but he hasn’t missed any action to date. After the team’s fully padded practice on Wednesday, though, Bullard was a non-participant in practice on Thursday, along with receiver Savion Williams, defensive end Lukas Van Ness and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt (who will eventually go on the injured reserve).

If Bullard misses this week’s game against the Chicago Bears, it will be the first game he has missed in full in 2025. Previously, he dropped out of Week 3 and Week 6, but at least he...

One of the most frequently asked questions I’ve gotten this week is how the Green Bay Packers will replace starting defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt, who should be going on season-ending injured reserve any day now with an ankle injury that he sustained in last week’s win over the Detroit Lions. Yes, the Packers added a defensive tackle, Jordon Riley, on Wednesday, but I want to take this time to explain what Green Bay did and didn’t do with that move and how it relates (or doesn’t) to Wyatt.

First of all, Wyatt is the team’s starting three-technique undertackle, a player...

Behold your new king: Green Bay Packers wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks is the Week 13 NVP. For those of you who aren’t hip, NVP stands for Nickelodeon Valuable Player and is awarded on their weekly Slime Time show, hosted by Nate Burleson and Dylan “Young Dylan” Gilmer.

Wicks gained this great honor by catching 6 of 7 passes for 94 yards and 2 TDs on Thanksgiving Day against the Detroit Lions. That gave Wicks a Receiving EPA of +10.8, the highest mark in the league this week (per NFL Pro). Wicks is also credited for 1 rushing attempt (on a...

When the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears meet on Sunday, it probably won’t be a flashy contest, but rather a 60-minute ball control battle. As Bill Huber recently outlined, the Packers’ offense is among the most careful in the league when it comes to turnovers, while the Bears’ defense leads the NFL in takeaways.

Green Bay enters the game with just seven giveaways. They’ve shown a knack for taking care of the football, a trend exemplified by Jordan Love (shout out to Toyotathon). On the other side, Chicago’s defense thrives on forcing mistakes. With interceptions and fumble recoveries piling...

With five games left on their regular season schedule, the 2025 Packers are essentially a known commodity. There is very little about this team that can change in a meaningful way as we come down the stretch.

But that’s not to say there are no changes at all. There is still a little wiggle room in the form of a few wildcard players that could move the needle for the Packers on both offense and defense. Here’s a quick look at six of the most significant wildcards on the roster right now.

**1 and 2 – Jayden Reed and Matthew...

As I’ve mentioned previously, one of the stats I’ve been tracking this season is something I’ve been calling Explosive +/-. Basically, it’s looking at how many explosive plays you’re creating on offense vs. how many you’re giving up on defense. Per a study by Brian Billick, teams that have had a +2 Explosive +/- in a game have won that game 80%-85% of the time. So one thing I like to do is see how teams have generated explosive plays against the Green Bay Packers’ next opponent (the Chicago Bears) and find plays that fit the Packers’ offense.

Explosives are...

The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears took very different approaches to their Wednesday practice schedule. The Packers, off their mini-bye after playing the Detroit Lions, had a fully padded practice, which they are only allowed three of in the final six weeks of the NFL season per the collective bargaining agreement. Meanwhile, the Bears, off a Black Friday game, did not have a practice or walkthrough on Wednesday.

In total, the Packers had 3 non-participants in their practice and 14 more limited participants today. The Bears only had to update an estimated injury report, since they didn’t do on-field...

At different points in his college career, Green Bay Packers rookie fifth-round pick Collin Oliver was either a true edge rusher or an off-ball linebacker. Oliver, who injured his hamstring before training camp, has been missing from the practice field since the mid-summer, so fans haven’t gotten much of an opportunity to figure out how exactly the Packers will be using him moving forward. So when Oliver’s practice window opened up this week, people had a reasonable question: Is Oliver going to be a 4-3 defensive end with the team or a linebacker?

On Wednesday, head coach Matt LaFleur answered...

Devonte Wyatt’s season is done, and his mangled ankle now leaves a gaping hole in the Packers’ defense. The Packers’ defensive line was thin enough without Wyatt’s untimely injury, and now that he’s gone, they’ll have to make do with what they have on hand as they try to sustain their Super Bowl aspirations.

The Packers currently employ five candidates to fill Wyatt’s spot. Karl Brooks and Colby Woden, both 2023 draft picks, are the most obvious candidates, but we know them well. Newly acquired Jordon Riley, lately of the New York Giants, is on the other end of the...

Devonte Wyatt’s season-ending injury is a major blow to the Green Bay Packers. The fourth-year defensive tackle has played 379 snaps on defense this season, contributing 27 total tackles, two pass breakups, and four sacks. Without his availability, the team’s interior defensive line depth will be tested over the remainder of the season, with young internal reinforcements like Warren Brinson expected to play a bigger role down the stretch.

However, the Packers went out and acquired an external reinforcement as well on Wednesday. Appearing at today’s practice was a new face, wearing number 97: Jordon Riley, a third-year tackle out...

About two weeks ago, the NFL decided to flex the Green Bay Packers’ Week 14 matchup with the Chicago Bears from the early afternoon time slot into the late afternoon. The reason was simple: to get a critical NFC North matchup in front of more eyeballs.

Now that TV broadcast maps are out, it’s clear why they made that call. According to the map from 506sports.com, nearly every TV market in the USA will see Packers-Bears on FOX in the late window. Instead of competing with three other games at noon central, the only other game on FOX at the...

There are two certainties in an NFL season.

The first is that attrition will take its toll at some point. No team makes it through a year unscathed. Sooner or later, someone, very likely more than one someone, will go down. It’s a fact of life. People get hurt playing professional football.

The second is this: if you don’t figure out a way to replace those players, and quickly, your season will go down with them. This is what sinks most contending teams, even more than their fate in the playoffs. The NFL’s ultimate prize is determined as often as...