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Tuesday Cheese Curds: Packers still have promising young wide receivers

Tuesday Cheese Curds: Packers still have promising young wide receivers

No matter what they do in the rest of the offseason, the Packers still have promising youngsters at wide receiver.

The Packers might have a bigger need on the defensive line, but I think it’s safe to say no position has caused more angst and consternation this offseason than wide receiver — and a lot of it has been misplaced.

Could the Packers receivers have been better in 2024? Without a doubt. Are there still short- and long-term concerns at the position? No question. Are the Packers’ wide receivers a collection of no-talent bottom feeders? Absolutely not.

Maybe they’re missing...

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Old Bar Room Arguments Were Ruined By Smart Phones: Let’s Invent New Ones

Old Bar Room Arguments Were Ruined By Smart Phones: Let’s Invent New Ones

You hold the entirety of human knowledge in your pocket. You gotta get theoretical

If one were to create a list of things that a person had to experience to qualify as a Millennial, there’s a very strong chance that I would check almost every box. I’m about as dead-center in the demographic for Midwest, Millennial, and Male that a person can be without becoming a living embodiment of an ohhyoubetcha sketch.

This means that I grew up in a suburb that fits the idealized Boomer-described childhood. You know the ones! Scraped knees and grass stains! Staying out until the...

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PFF names Packers’ #1 selection in mock draft simulator

PFF names Packers’ #1 selection in mock draft simulator

Six fan bases seem to think James Pearce Jr. is going to be their first-round pick

Once draft season is in full swing, one of the most popular football websites around is Pro Football Focus’ Mock Draft Simulator. There, fans spend hours crafting mock drafts, either for their team or the league as a whole.

On Monday, PFF released a list of each team’s most-selected player, generally who their most popular selection is in the first round. For the Green Bay Packers, it’s defensive end James Pearce Jr. of Tennesse, who reportedly took a pre-draft visit with the team.

Here’s...

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Packers’ new faces get their jersey numbers

Packers’ new faces get their jersey numbers

Check out the jersey numbers of the Packers’ newest additions.

With the first big wave of NFL free agency finally behind us, the Green Bay Packers have made a few updates to their jersey numbers. As a refresher, it was reported the Packers would be signing OL Aaron Banks and CB Nate Hobbs when free agency opened. Last week, the Packers also added WR Mecole Hardman. Their official jersey numbers have been announced, so you can all begin beefing up your gameday gear.

Aaron Banks will be wearing #65, previously occupied by DL James Ester, who the team signed in...

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What are we really learning from Bob McGinn’s anonymous scouting reports?

What are we really learning from Bob McGinn’s anonymous scouting reports?

The anonymous scouts are back for draft season.

Real information about the NFL Draft is distressingly sparse. Sure, we’ve got the NFL Combine and mock drafts and the ever-evolving machinations of the rumor mill, but in terms of what NFL teams and personnel people actually think, there’s basically nothing out there.

Except for Bob McGinn’s annual draft reports. Working with Tyler Dunne, his former colleague at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, McGinn parcels out a series of reports on the various groups of players available in a given year’s draft class. Just today he dropped his first offering for 2025, diving...

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Packers Mock Draft 2.0 Voting: 1st Round

Packers Mock Draft 2.0 Voting: 1st Round

You decide who Green Bay will take with the 23rd overall pick

It’s Monday, so that means it’s time to start another round of mock draft voting. As we did in our Packers Mock Draft 1.0, whichever player receives the top post in terms of “rec”s in the comment section will be awarded to your Green Bay Packers this round.

Here’s a recap of how mock 1.0 went for the Packers:

Packers Mock Draft 1.0

  • #23 Derrick Harmon, DT, Oregon
  • #54 Benjamin Morrison, CB, Notre Dame
  • #87 Savion Williams, WR, TCU

You could argue that Green...

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Monday Cheese Curds: Packers wide receiver room due for a shakeup?

Monday Cheese Curds: Packers wide receiver room due for a shakeup?

Between high draft prospects and trade bait, the receiver unit could look very different in 2025.

The Green Bay Packers’ wide receiver unit may well look very different in 2025 than how it did in 2024. Christian Watson’s torn ACL has a lot to do with that, but so too does the potential for the Packers to make some moves during and around the 2025 NFL Draft.

Heading towards the draft with the 23rd overall pick, the Packers could very well break their streak of not drafting a wideout in round one this season. Matthew Golden and Emeka Egbuka have...

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The Packers’ 2024 defense, by the numbers

The Packers’ 2024 defense, by the numbers

A closer look at some of the defensive trends under first-year defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley.

Today, we’ll look at some of the defensive trends under first-year defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley, including blitz rates and coverage usage among other trends.

The Packers' defense finished the season as the 4th most efficient defense in EPA/play (-.066) and 7th in defensive DVOA. Not too shabby for Hafley and his wholesale change from a 3-4 under Joe Barry to a 4-3 in less than a year.

Installing a predominantly 4-3 cover-3 style defense of the Seattle scheme/”legion of boom” mold under Pete Carroll of...

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Packers Mock Draft Round-Up: 1st-round favorites emerge

Packers Mock Draft Round-Up: 1st-round favorites emerge

10 of 13 mocks picked just 5 players for Green Bay’s first-round selection

With only three remaining Green Bay Packers unrestricted free agents left on the market, it’s time to turn our full attention to the 2025 NFL Draft. As always, we’ll go through a dozen notable mock drafts published over the last week and our first Acme Packing Company mock to show you some of the more popular names that analysts have going to the Packers about a month before draft day.

Mykel Williams, EDGE, Georgia (15th on consensus draft board)

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Former Packers expected to make an impact in the 2025 UFL season

Former Packers expected to make an impact in the 2025 UFL season

Three former Green Bay pass-catchers hope to bring home a four-peat for Birmingham

The United Football League kicks off next week, which means that the UFL’s eight rosters just went through their roster cutdown process. Many notable Green Bay Packers ended up making it through cuts, most of which were also members of the league last season.

Here’s your quick rundown on some of the top former Packers in the league:

Danny Etling, Michigan Panthers, QB

The former LSU quarterback was a member of the Packers’ roster from 2021 to 2023, but he never appeared in a regular season...

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Packers cornerback signs with Kansas City Chiefs

Packers cornerback signs with Kansas City Chiefs

Robert Rochell will be playing with the incumbent AFC champions in 2025

Former Green Bay Packers cornerback Robert Rochell agreed to a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The former fourth-round pick of the Los Angeles Rams was picked up by the Packers in 2023 as a practice squad poaching off of the Carolina Panthers’ roster.

Rochell bounced on and off the Packers’ 53-man roster throughout the 2024 season, but ended up playing in 20 games for Green Bay over the last two seasons. For the most part, he was a special...

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Packers’ Brian Gutekunst was only GM at top receiver’s private pro day

Packers’ Brian Gutekunst was only GM at top receiver’s private pro day

Green Bay’s interest in a first-round receiver appears to be legitimate

Big 12 programs are doing things a little differently in the pre-draft process these days. Collectively, they hosted a joint pro day as a conference from March 18th to March 21st, which eliminated individual schools putting on pro days for the 2025 offseason.

So when Arizona receiver Tetairoa McMillan wanted to workout on campus, it was considered a private event, rather than a program-wide pro day. Most of the NFL elected to just catch the Wildcats’ talent later in the week at the Big 12 pro day, which is...

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