The Green Bay Packers got back in the win column on Sunday against the New York Giants, and we’re here doing what we always do. Win or lose, rain or shine, we’re looking at the Packers’ passing game, and today that includes some incredible performances by quarterback Jordan Love and receiver Christian Watson. So let’s get started.
The raw numbers are nothing to write home about — no one is getting hyped over a 54.2% completion rate — but there’s quite a bit of context missing from just the numbers. I charted Packers receivers with 6 drops, accounting for ~92...
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The Packers’ 2023 draft class was about as exciting as I could possibly imagine. That year, Brian Gutekunst invested not one, but two top 100 picks on tight ends in what was considered a very tight end-rich class. Between Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft, visions of 12 personnel danced in my head, not to mention the intriguing individual talents both presented.
And while Kraft has lived up to every expectation and more, Musgrave has struggled. The Packers force-fed him the football through the first half of his rookie season, but after a lacerated kidney sidelined him, he has never really...
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In some ways, Week 11 felt like another bye week for the Packers.
I know they played a game and we all watched it, but I didn’t come away from the win over the Giants feeling like I had a new grasp on this Packers team. Nor did I feel like the Packers answered any of the long-term questions we’ve had about this team.
And on the one hand, that’s fine. The Giants are bad and probably weren’t going to teach you anything, anyway. Getting out of New York (or, rather, New Jersey) with a win is all the Packers...
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There were a bunch of injuries in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, so there’s probably not going to be a Green Bay Packers depth chart update as long as this one for the remainder of the season. We’ll take you through what’s changed with this Packers roster, position-by-position, based on what the team did this weekend.
As always, the snap counts below do not include plays with pre-snap penalties (like false starts), spikes or kneel, but they do include plays with post-snap penalties (like holding). Cells in red mean that a player was unable to play the game...
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This is going to be the question you’ll be getting all week. If you’re a Green Bay Packers fan outside of the Packers’ footprint, half of your office is going to ask you if Josh Jacobs is going to play this week, off fantasy implications alone.
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has already said that Jacobs won’t go on the injured reserve due to the knee injury that he sustained against the New York Giants. In LaFleur’s words, it’s a contusion (a bruise). I have to say “in LaFleur’s words,” because after [all of the chaos around the...
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While seven Canadians must be on the field at all times in the Canadian Football League, there is American talent that makes its way up north of the border. On Sunday, the Saskatchewan Roughriders took down the Montreal Alouettes in a 25-17 victory that featured former Green Bay Packers on both sides.
For the winning Roughriders, the former Packers on the team were defensive tackle Micah Johnson and safety Benny Sapp III.
Johnson was Kentucky’s Mr. Football as a prep, earning Under Armour All-American honors. Staying in-state for college, Johnson was a first-team All-SEC linebacker for the Wildcats before joining...
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For the first time in their history, the Dallas Cowboys will play a game in Las Vegas tonight. The Las Vegas Raiders host the Cowboys in the teams’ first head-to-head game since Thanksgiving day in 2021, a thrilling 36-33 overtime game that the Raiders won under the leadership of interim head coach Rich Bisaccia.
That year, both teams were contending for playoff spots, however, which does not appear to be the case this year. The Raiders are in last place in an otherwise strong AFC West division and have won just twice in their first nine games. The Cowboys aren’t...
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When asked if running back Josh Jacobs, who was injured against the New York Giants on Sunday, would be going on the injured reserve during his Monday press conference, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur made the team’s stance clear: “No.” Previously, it had been reported that the Packers didn’t believe that Jacobs’ knee injury was going to be a season-ender, but Jacobs was going to have more testing done when the team arrived back in Green Bay.
LaFleur was then asked if Jacobs was going to play this weekend against the Minnesota Vikings. LaFleur was much less committed...
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The brains of football fans should be studied for science. Maybe we should not just limit it to fans, but perhaps anyone in and around the game at all. In Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love managed to get his left shoulder crushed by a defender after deciding not to slide and had to go back to the locker room temporarily. In came backup Malik Willis and, predominantly off the back of the running game, he led the Packers on the remainder of the touchdown drive, which included both a key third down...
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The Green Bay Packers’ struggles against the point spread continued on Sunday in week 10. A Packers team that game into week 11 with a 3-6 record against the spread sat right on it against the New York Giants. Depending on the sportsbook, the Packers were favored by either 7 or 7.5 points, and their 27-20 victory was at best a push.
The Packers return home in week 12 after their brief road trip, finally getting set to play their second NFC North rivalry game of the season and their first since week 1. Up on the docket this week...
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Heading into Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, one of the worst fears of Green Bay Packers fans was that Matt LaFleur would lean too heavily into the run game against an epically bad Giants run defense. On that front, the team’s offensive game plan and scheme should be cause for relief, as LaFleur chose not to simply keep the ball on the ground all game long.
Instead, LaFleur actually opened up the passing game a bit, getting back into the play action-based attack that worked well for the Packers over the last few seasons. Instead of having trouble...
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Last week, the Green Bay Packers had to make a decision: Who would start at tight end in place of Tucker Kraft, who was lost for the season with an ACL tear against the Carolina Panthers? Even though the Packers had used both Luke Musgrave and John FitzPatrick as the team’s TE2 behind Kraft at different points in 2025, it was Musgrave who took over after Kraft went down against the Panthers.
In Week 10, Musgrave made his first start in the team’s lone tight end sets in 2025. Overall, he played 77 percent of the offense’s snaps against the...
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