The Green Bay Packers signed receiver/returner Mecole Hardman this offseason, as the team apparently planned on phasing All-Pro returner Keisean Nixon off of special teams. So far this year, Nixon hasn’t returned even 1 of the 30 kick returns that the Packers have taken out in 2025, and Nixon has only returned 3 of the team’s 21 punt returns.

On punt returns, specifically, Green Bay needed a starter at the position going into the offseason. So far, the punt return duties have been split between Romeo Doubs (10), Matthew Golden (6), Nixon (3) and Jayden Reed (2) this season. Meanwhile,...

For weeks, the Green Bay Packers’ coaching staff has been trying to convince us that kicker Brandon McManus has been healthy, even though he’s now three of nine on field goals outside of the red zone this season. Clearly, he’s been pushing through an injury, and it has been impacting his performance, but the staff has said he’s been good to kick in games. That’s been their story even after McManus apparently told ESPN’s broadcast crew that Week 10 against the Philadelphia Eagles was the first time he was “even semi-healthy.” Now, it’s unlikely that he’ll suit up against the...

We’ve already had one top-25 upset this week, with #20 Louisville falling to Clemson on Friday night. The ACC is currently in absolute chaos, as each of Georgia Tech, Virginia, SMU, Pittsburgh and Duke all have only one loss at the top of the conference. Yes, 5-4 Duke is 4-1 in the ACC. There’s a slim chance that the ACC is left out of the playoff entirely in 2025.

Beyond just the ACC, though, there should be some good games on the college football slate this week. Below are the top-25 matchups on Saturday.

#9 Notre Dame @ #22 Pittsburgh...

The Green Bay Packers’ defense, again, did more than enough to win the game. Against the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, whom they held to just 10 points, they found ways to stop a high-powered offense led by Saquon Barkley and AJ Brown. Unfortunately, the offense did not hold up its end of the bargain; the game ended 10-7, even with the defense getting the ball back to the offense twice in the final two minutes.

The Packers defense held Barkley to just 2.7 yards per carry and held AJ Brown to two catches for 13 yards. Barkley did...

All of us here at Acme Packing Company have been theorizing as to why Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has become a bad head coach, and I would like to proffer up my theory: That Matt is secretly an old man who fell in love with the Kyle Shanahan system for all the wrong reasons. Now that certain aspects of the Shanny offense have broken down, the wrong reasons are all of the reasons that he has left.

Shanahan fundamentally builds a team with “big guys who catch,” and then dares you, with the threat of the run,...

As the Green Bay Packers prepare for one of the most chaotic quarterbacks in modern NFL history in Jameis Winston, it presents an opportunity for third-year cornerback Carrington Valentine to make some splash plays for his defense.

Shortly after firing head coach Brian Daboll, the New York Giants announced that Winston would be starting over an injured Jaxson Dart and ahead of veteran Russell Wilson, who struggled mightily when forced onto the field last week against the Chicago Bears.

This will be Winston’s first playing time of the year after appearing in 12 games for the Cleveland Browns in 2024....

It’s my opinion that the Green Bay Packers are running the ball too much. They’re playing conservative and relying on their very good defense to win games, while they should be riding good offensive personnel out to an early lead so that Micah Parsons can kill people. They need to seriously dial back the running, hopefully forever, but at least until the offensive line improves. The results from the last two weeks should be driving that message home.

Oh, but this week. This week is NOT going to help with that. I predict that by the time Monday rolls around,...

The Green Bay Packers don’t have many injury question marks going into Sunday’s Week 11 action against the New York Giants. On Friday, the team officially ruled out cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee), which was expected. Beyond that, though, Green Bay only has three players who were listed as questionable going into the game.

The players were receiver Matthew Golden (shoulder), receiver Savion Williams (foot) and defensive end Lukas Van Ness (foot). Both Golden and Van Ness missed last week’s action, while Williams played through his foot injury against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Golden and Williams have been limited participants throughout the...

The Packers and Giants have nearly a century of history together. These two teams first crossed paths all the way back in 1928, a 6-0 barnburner victory for the New York Giants, who were fresh off a victory over the fearsome Pottsville Maroons the previous week. The Packers would get their revenge over their big-city counterparts later in the season, besting the Giants 7-0 in the second meeting between the two franchises.

The point is, both of these teams have been around a while, and the Packers have had plenty of opportunities to put up big numbers against the Giants....

With Week 10 firmly in the rearview mirror and no one still talking about it at all, it’s time we turn and look at the Week 11 match-up against the New York Giants. What can we expect to see from the Green Bay Packers’ offense in this game? I looked at some numbers and film to form a kind of attack plan against this Giants defense. (Unless otherwise noted, all the numbers I’m using here will be coming from NFL Pro.)

We’ll start where the Packers seem to want to start: with the run game. The Packers have not been...

The NFL has tweaked its roster rules around injured reserve significantly in the last ten years or so, with the rules changes affording teams much more flexibility to manage medium-term injuries. Years ago, if a player was placed on the Reserve/Injured list (more commonly referred to as “injured reserve” or “IR”), his season was over.

Now, the league allows teams to designate up to eight players to return from IR during a single regular season. Additionally, teams that make the playoffs are allowed two additional return designations for postseason play. Unlike in past years, teams do not need to make...

The Green Bay Packers have dealt with more changes and uncertainty on their offensive line in 2025 than they have for some time. Yes, David Bakhtiari’s bouncing in and out of the lineup after his torn ACL was a challenge, but the rest of the line had stayed largely healthy during the few years when that was happening.

This year, however, every position but left tackle has seen some sort of shuffling. Left guard Aaron Banks has missed games with multiple injuries, while right tackle Zach Tom sat out a few weeks and left after one snap of another game...