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Through two games, we’ve seen a bunch of interesting and intriguing stuff from the Packers. Jordan Love is throwing bombs, Micah Parsons is chasing quarterbacks, and the team is winning. There’s a lot to like!
But what about hard and fast numbers? How are the Packers faring in that context? Pretty darn good, it turns out. Here’s a quick look at some interesting statistical nuggets from the Packers’ 2025 season to date.
So far this season, Jordan Love has posted an Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt of 9.76. That’s just a few ticks behind Justin Herbert’s 9.84 for the league lead, and it’s currently the best figure in Packers history among players who have thrown at least 50 passes in a season. It’s even better than Aaron Rodgers’ otherworldly 9.39 ANY/A he posted in 2011, his first MVP campaign — though Rodgers obviously sustained it a lot longer than Love has.
Elsewhere in the Packers’ backfield, Josh Jacobs is carrying a huge load for the green and gold this year. He has touched the ball a whopping 43 times so far this year. No other player has even hit double digits yet; Tucker Kraft is the closest with nine. That number puts Jacobs on pace for more than 365 touches this year, which would be the second-highest number of his career.
Jacobs is getting so much work in part because nobody else in the Packers’ stable of backs is doing much. In fact, it’s actually a wide receiver who has the second-most rushing yards this year. Behind Jacobs’ 150 yards, it’s Savion Williams that comes next in the Packers’ season rushing totals with 24 yards so far. Williams is also responsible for the longest rush of the Packers’ season so far. His 16-yard run out of a wildcat formation is the longest carry by a Packers player so far this year.
Speaking of carries, Matthew Golden has as many carries (two) as catches (two) so far in his young NFL career. It might be tempting to call that a slow start, and I suppose it is in some respects, but it’s also true that the Packers haven’t really needed him to carry much of the offensive load so far this year. He’s only a bit behind the pace of the last receiver the Packers took in the first round: Javon Walker, all the way back in 2002. Through his first two games, Walker caught five passes for 83 yards and a touchdown and carried the ball once for 11 yards. Golden has two catches for 16 yards and two carries for 15 yards so far in 2025.
Tucker Kraft isn’t struggling to put up yards, though. In the Packers’ Thursday night win over the Commanders, his six catch, 124-yard, one touchdown effort was the best game by a Green Bay tight end since Richard Rodgers’ eight catch, 146-yard, one touchdown game in 2015, which was repeatedly noted during the Thursday Night Football broadcast. Rodgers, of course, got 61 of his...
