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As the Packers stand on the precipice of another season, a few players are prepared to make a serious run up the team’s all-time leaderboards.
Honestly, this process is a bit more interesting this year than in the past. With Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams and Aaron Jones as the main offensive engines, there really wasn’t all that much movement at the tip-top of the leaderboards. They were chasing the very best of the best in Packers’ history, interesting in its own way, but not as fun as someone really flying past bunches of names.
Most of this year’s movement will definitely be in the latter category. A few players will be reaching rare air sooner than later, but nobody on this year’s team is quite there yet.
On offense, the headliner in terms of all-time rankings moves is Jordan Love. Love is just 3,381 yards behind Tobin Rote for fifth all-time in passing yards on the Packers’ leaderboard, meaning he’ll almost assuredly finish the year ranked among the team’s most productive passers. Of course, it’s quite a climb from there; Lynn Dickey is in fourth place with 21,369 yards and Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers are lightyears beyond that figure. But a top-five finish is a top-five finish, and Love is pretty close to getting there.
There’s also a chance Love could crack the top five in passing touchdowns this year, but that would take some serious work. With 60 passing touchdowns to his name, Love is already eighth in Packers’ history, but Tobin Rote in fifth place has 89. Love would need 30 to pass him. Not impossible, but a much bigger ask than the yardage number he needs to hit.
Elsewhere in the Packers’ backfield, Josh Jacobs is set to make a huge jump up the Packers’ rushing leaderboard. After putting up 1,329 yards his first year in Green Bay, Jacobs already ranks 38th in Packers history in rushing yards, one spot ahead of Bart Starr. And it’s not that I expected Starr to have some monster rushing total, it’s just funny that Jacobs jumped by him in a single season when Starr played in Green Bay across three different decades.
Anyway, if Jacobs has a similar season this year, he’ll probably finish the year around 16th all-time on the rushing leaderboard. James Starks currently occupies the 16th spot with 2,506 yards, and he seems like a reasonable target for Jacobs. It would take a pretty remarkable season for Jacobs to get to 15th this year; Eddie Lee Ivery is 15th as of right now with 2,933 yards.
Scoring-wise, Jacobs crossed the goalline for 15 rushing touchdowns last season (16 touchdowns total), landing him in a tie with Bart Starr and Terdell Middleton. If Jacobs scores 10 times this year, he’ll tie Gerry Ellis for 15th in Packers history. Another 15-touchdown season would nudge Jacobs past John Brockington and Tobin Rote for the ninth spot on the list (both scored 29 rushing touchdowns).
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