Acme Packing Company
We introduce a new project here at APC and start off with the quarterback position.
Over the coming days, Acme Packing Company will conduct a new exercise to commemorate the 2025 offseason. There have been 25 football seasons played since the calendar clicked over to the year 2000, a full quarter of a century. In that time, the Green Bay Packers have been one of the NFL’s most consistently successful franchises. Although they have just a single Super Bowl title in that time frame, they also have just five losing seasons against 16 years with double-digit wins in the regular season.
That 25-year span has seen a tremendous number of exceptional players come through Green Bay, leading us to put together this project. With the help of our readers and community, we are going to assemble the definitive best lineup of current and former Packers who played for the team from 2000 to 2024. Specifically, we want to examine players for their contributions only in Green and Gold and only during that time span; as a result, we will be presenting statistics and narratives from 2000 onwards, providing only a small amount of context for players who were with the team in the 1990s.
Creating a starting lineup can be a bit challenging, however, given the changes in position groupings and schemes over the last two-and-a-half decades. Still, we’re going to give this a shot by including a couple of extra lineup slots on both offense and defense to account for some positional flexibility.
Here’s the list of positions that we will be voting on over the next several days:
Today, however, we get underway at the quarterback position. There are only three feasible choices over the past 25 years, thanks to the Packers’ incredible string of success at scouting, drafting, and developing the position.
Note: All stats shown are as a member of the Green Bay Packers only, from the 2000 through 2024 seasons only.
3x second-team All-Pro, 3x AP MVP runner-up, 4x Pro Bowler
Team regular season record as starter: 78-50
Team postseason record as starter: 3-5
Regular season stats: 128 games played/started, 2718 completions, 4407 attempts (61.7%), 30,761 yards, 207 TDs, 147 INTs, 84.3 passer rating
Postseason stats: 8 games played/started, 168 completions, 272 attempts (61.8%), 1,921 yards, 14 TDs, 16 INTs, 75.6 passer rating
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