Sorry, NBC. For your late-season game streamed exclusively* on Peacock, you were expecting Jordan Love vs. Lamar Jackson with playoff implications. Instead, you’re getting Malik Willis vs. Tyler Huntley instead.

*Except in the Green Bay, Milwaukee, and Baltimore markets, which will get the game on local NBC stations.

To be sure, Willis vs. Huntley is pretty darn good as backup quarterback matchups go. Willis has been excellent for the Packers in the last two years when called upon to fill in for Love, while Huntley has been much the same as Jackson’s backup for five of the last six seasons....

The Green Bay Packers ruled out quarterback Jordan Love on Friday, but Baltimore Ravens fans had to wait until Saturday to get the bad news about Lamar Jackson. Jackson, who injured his back last week, was listed as doubtful by Baltimore on the final injury report of the week. He’s going to miss this game, meaning that both teams will be duking it out with their backup quarterbacks.

Packers Inactives

• QB Jordan Love (shoulder/concussion)
• WR Savion Williams (illness)
• RT Zach Tom (knee/back)
• DE Collin Oliver
• DE Barryn Sorrell
• DT Nazir Stackhouse

Along with...

With Green Bay Packers starting quarterback Jordan Love ruled out with a concussion against the Baltimore Ravens, Malik Willis will be serving as the team’s starter in Week 17. Backfilling for Willis as the backup quarterback in this game will be Clayton Tune, who the Packers just elevated from the practice squad to the gameday roster.

Tune signed with Green Bay after the cutdown deadline, serving as a practice squadder up to this point. In his NFL career, he’s thrown 23 passes for 70 yards (3.0 yards per attempt), zero touchdowns and two interceptions for a passer rating of 29.3....

The Green Bay Packers received a Christmas present from the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday when they defeated the Detroit Lions. The lions’ loss clinched a playoff spot for the Packers, but we’re not done by a long shot.

NFC North standings

The Packers are still playing for the NFC North division title over the last two weeks of the season. A loss by the Packers and Chicago clinches. If the Bears win, they can also clinch. Green Bay plays on Saturday, so they should be playing like the division is on the line, especially beacaus the Bears are playing...

The Green Bay Packers ended up losing 22-16 in overtime to the Chicago Bears in week 16, primarily because the offense could not produce a single touchdown inside the red zone. They finished the game 0-for-5 on red zone scoring opportunities as they had to settle for three field goals, two of which came on drives of 14 and 16 plays.

There are a number of reasons why the Packers lost this game, but this was the single biggest factor. And it’s one they’ll have to address in the playoffs. Walking away from a game without a single red zone...

The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs, thanks to two losses by the Detroit Lions since the Packers’ last game. Green Bay may have lost that game to the Chicago Bears, but the Packers’ chances of winning the NFC North and getting a better seed and a home game in the playoffs do remain alive.

To have a chance at making that happen, however, the Packers need a win over the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, or else they will be officially relegated to the #7 seed in the NFC playoffs for the third straight season. If they do...

According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, there are “several teams” already keeping tabs on Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Malik Willis going into next year’s free agency period. Willis is in the final year of his rookie contract, and Willis’ price tag is expected to be in the $5 million to $8 million range, though that number was calculated before last week, when he posted a 142.8 passer rating.

Willis is expected to start on Saturday for the Packers, as preferred starting quarterback Jordan Love did not pass through concussion protocol this week.

Here’s what Fowler had to say about Willis:...

Despite rumors floating around that said otherwise, The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman is reporting that Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich never interviewed with the Michigan Wolverines for their head coaching opening. In fact, Feldman said that he was never a candidate at all.

Previously, it had been reported by Football Scoop, a site that covers the coaching angle of college football, that Stenavich was a “popular name” in the search because of Stenavich’s pre-Jim Harbaugh ties. Stenavich played at Michigan from 2001 to 2005 under head coach Lloyd Carr, helping the Wolverines win the Big Ten as a redshirt...

In the last article, we briefly covered the events leading up to the final Chicago Bears touchdown in regulation and broke down the details of that final play that tied the game. Ultimately, the Bears knocked off the Green Bay Packers 22-16 in overtime on the back of a deep shot from Caleb Williams to D.J. Moore.

As stated in the previous article, the game started slowly unraveling for the Packers early with the loss of Jordan Love in the first half (though to be fair to Malik Willis, I thought he played well), the Josh Jacobs inside-the-5-yard line fumble,...

Beyond just the Green Bay Packers downgrading quarterback Jordan Love (concussion) to out against the Baltimore Ravens, the team made other adjustments to their injury report on Friday. First of all, the team placed linebacker Kristian Welch (ankle) on the injured reserve. Welch came in to replace the special teams snaps that linebacker Nick Niemann previously played, before Niemann himself went on injured reserve.

Be it a practice squad elevation to the gameday roster or a straight promotion to the 53-man roster, expect practice squad linebacker Jamon Johnson to replace Welch’s snaps against the Baltimore Ravens. Johnson previously came in...

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Friday that the Green Bay Packers will not be playing quarterback Jordan Love, who suffered a concussion last week, and are expected to start Malik Willis against the Baltimore Ravens tomorrow. Willis has previously started two games for the Packers, both in 2024, and has a 2-0 record.

Over two years in Green Bay, he’s thrown 52 completions on 68 passes (77 percent completion percentage) for 684 yards (10.1 yards per attempt) and five touchdowns. That’s good for a passer rating of 132.2. Beyond his ability to throw the ball, he’s also run for 201...

Welcome to the 80th edition of the rest or rust debate, a sports radio staple. Despite all the discourse, I don’t think we’ve figured out whether or not it’s better to rest starters, if you have nothing substantial to gain in the final week of the season, or if you should just be playing them going into the playoffs.

With that being said, I’ve already seen some strong opinions about what the Green Bay Packers should do in Week 18, at least in certain circumstances.

As a refresher, this is what could happen in Week 17:

• If the Packers...