I’m not sure what I expect from Matthew Golden in year two, but I think I have a lot of good company when I say that I expect his 2026 season to be better than 2025.

What does “better” actually look like? More counting stats, to be sure, but beyond that point is where I start getting a bit stuck. Because stats don’t tell the whole story, but stats are a big reason we all seem to think Golden had a disappointing rookie year.

And, to be fair, the stats were disappointing, but I think that’s a symptom, not a...

If you’re new to this series, we’re reviewing how the Green Bay Packers offense performed in 2025 by down & distance. We’re doing that by building out a call sheet. I ran it all down in my initial post. This is the 9th article in the series, where we’re looking at 4th & Short (where “Short” is defined as needing 3 or fewer yards for a 1st down). We’ll reference Success Rate & Explosive Rate in this series, so here are the definitions. On 4th down, a play is considered a success if it gains 100% of the yards needed...

The next installment of the Packers’ Top Plays of 2025 looks at a massive late-game 4th down conversion that helped earn Green Bay a win early on in the season.

Matt LaFleur’s career as a decision-maker has had a few phases. Early on, he epitomized the “All Gas, No Brake” mentality that he preached, proving to be one of the more aggressive coaches in keeping his offense on the field in 4th down situations. However, that aggressiveness waned over the past few years, and he became more apt to play for field goals and field position.

However, 2025 saw the...

We’re in the throes of the deadest of dead periods on the NFL calendar, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing interesting going on. Now is prime time for the human interest aspects of NFL reporting to surface.

There’s plenty to choose from this time of year. You always hear stories about how a certain player is going to be in the best shape of his life, or how a perhaps disappointing young player is taking a new approach to this season and is going to turn things around now.

Or, sometimes, you get interesting reporting about some of the behind-the-scenes...

Opportunity cost is a real problem for football teams, especially ones built like the Packers.

In the Jordan Love era, the Packers have never really been short of offensive talent. Sure, it’s often been a challenge to have all of that talent on the field together, but in the aggregate, it’s never been an issue.

But that’s its own kind of problem. The Packers have frequently had so many decent options that they’ve lacked overall coherence; they’ve bordered on having too many cooks in the kitchen.

The Packers themselves have tacitly admitted this was an issue this offseason, trimming their...

As we turn toward the 2026 season, it’s time to take a short look back at 2025.

Over the past few weeks, the APC staff has been voting on and discussing the Packers’ top 10 plays of 2025, and we’re happy to unveil our list starting with number 10, when Dontayvion Wicks showed the whole city of Detroit that the Packers could be just as aggressive as the Lions.

The Game

After the Packers took down the Lions in Week 1, boosted in large part by their very late acquisition of Micah Parsons, their rematch on Thanksgiving shaped up...

When the Green Bay Packers take the field in September for the start of the regular season, they will have a new starting left tackle. With Rasheed Walker moving on in free agency, the team is finally going to hand the reins over to former first-round draft pick Jordan Morgan, who has more time at guard as a pro than he has at tackle.

Still, left tackle should be Morgan’s best position. That statement is based not only on his college experience and his overall athletic profile, but also on how he has performed when actually playing the position. It...

On Monday, Acme Packing Company will begin our countdown of the Top Plays of the Green Bay Packers’ 2025 season. The list will officially start with play #10 as voted on by our contributors, but before we get to the top ten, it’s time to look at a few plays that just barely missed the cut.

Three of these four plays come from games that will show up again in the Top 10 at some point, which may explain why these didn’t quite make the cut for our countdown.

Micah Parsons sacks his old teammate to prevent an overtime touchdown...

A former Green Bay Packers tight end once had a slogan: “Year of the Takeover,” abbreviated to YOTTO. Jermichael Finley was a productive, playmaking tight end during his brief career, to be sure, but the promised takeover never quite arrived, with his 2011 season being his high-water mark (55 catches, 767 yards, 8 TDs).

That year came in the context of the entire Packers offense being exceptional, as each of those numbers ranked him third among the Packers’ wealth of receiving options.

Although Tucker Kraft hasn’t eclipsed any of Finley’s 2011 numbers in a single season yet, he was well...

Now that minicamps have concluded, we finally have an official record of all of the contracts that undrafted free agents have signed this draft cycle. Yes, it does take this long for all of the official numbers to be reported in.

We’ve touched on some of the numbers that the Green Bay Packers’ undrafted free agents signed for, but now we can compare apples to apples, seeing where they end up on the curve of other players signed at their positions this offseason. Wonder where the Packers’ undrafted players rank at their positions in terms of guaranteed money? You’ve come...

Draft season has officially bled into May. On Thursday, the NFL announced the dates of the 2027 draft, which will be held in Washington, D.C. The draft will stretch from April 29th to May 1st. This will be the first time that the draft has spilled over into May since 2021, the first post-Covid draft.

The only other drafts since the 80s that have kicked off on April 29th or later are:

• 2015 (April 20th-May 2nd)
• 2014 (May 8th-10th)
• 2006 (April 29th-30th)

If you’re planning to go to the nation’s capital for the event, make sure you...

The Green Bay Packers drafted Luke Musgrave in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft. At the time, they obviously envisioned a dynamic pass-catching tight end who could stretch defenses and become a featured weapon in Matt LaFleur’s offense. Three years later, it’s fair to say he’s disappointed, particularly compared to his counterpart, Tucker Kraft.

That’s really the load-bearing wall in the argument to put Musgrave on the trading block: The team will presumably lock emerging star Tucker Kraft into a long-term deal before the season begins, Musgrave has not lived up to expectations, and perhaps GM Brian Gutekunst...