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How do the quarterbacks the Packers will face stack up this season?
Football is — or has become — a game by, about, and for quarterbacks. If you’ve got a good one, you’re a contender pretty much no matter how good (or bad!) the rest of your roster may be. If you don’t, well, good luck hitting the quarterback lottery in next year’s draft. You’re going to need it!
In the 2025 season, the Packers face a pretty varied crop of quarterbacks. Here’s an absolutely definitive and in no way subjective ranking of those quarterbacks. And of course, it’s May, so there’s no way that injuries or other personnel moves could affect this list. Absolutely airtight ranking.
Members: Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow
Analysis: Quarterbacks in this tier should be able to wreck any team all by themselves, and I think both Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow fit that description. Fortunately for the Packers, they don’t play too many truly elite quarterbacks this year. If they can split with this tier of quarterbacks, they should have a quarterback advantage for most of the rest of the season.
Members: Jalen Hurts, Jared Goff, Jayden Daniels
Analysis: The Pro Football Researchers Association annually elects new members to what it calls the “Hall of Very Good.” Members of the HOVG are players that are not among the all-time greats, but are too good to merely be forgotten. In Packers’ specific terms, think about guys like Clay Matthews and Jordy Nelson. Both were certainly excellent players and surefire members of the Packers’ own Hall of Fame someday, but I doubt either one will get a call from Canton.
This tier is those kinds of guys, more or less. Maybe you think Jalen Hurts deserves to be in the elite tier; I don’t, but I wouldn’t argue with you. I think we can agree that he is at least “very good,” and if the Packers aren’t on their game, he could wreck them.
Jared Goff is in the perfect spot as the trigger man for the Lions’ elite offense, but how elite will they be without Ben Johnson? There’s no way of knowing, but it seems like he’ll be good enough to get the job done with the weapons he has around him.
The Packers will face last year’s rookie wunderkind, Jayden Daniels, for the first time this season. What he’ll become long term is a mystery, but calling him “very good” for now seems fair enough.
Members: Aaron Rodgers*, Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Bryce Young, Bo Nix, Caleb Williams, Russell Wilson*
Analysis: This is the “high variance” tier. If you get them at the wrong time, they might drop 300 yards and three touchdowns on you. But catch them on the right week and you’ll wonder how they hold down an NFL job.
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