Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley hasn’t given up on cornerback Nate Hobbs, and he wants you to know it. Hobbs struggled at outside cornerback in extended looks against the Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals and Arizona Cardinals, but both Hafley and head coach Matt LaFleur sang his praises going into last week’s action against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Then Hobbs hardly saw the field.

In place of Hobbs, Carrington Valentine made the start and had a career game opposite Keisean Nixon, who might have had the worst performance of his career. This week, LaFleur said that competition would continue at...

It’s Thursday evening, and that means that the NFL is kicking off its next week of football this evening. Tonight, Week 9 gets underway with a matchup between two underwhelming AFC teams that are looking to scrape out of the bottom of their respective divisions.

The Baltimore Ravens are just 2-5 on the young 2025 season, but there are a few mitigating factors for their record to this point. Their schedule was front-loaded with very tough games — their losses have come to the Bills, Lions, Chiefs, Texans, and Rams. Three of those teams are currently 5-2, one is 5-3...

Back in 2024, I asked special teams staffers in and around the NFL what the new dynamic kickoff would look like, before we had ever seen the play executed in the league. The response I got was the following: Eventually, teams are going to be good enough to kick “dirty balls,” which are difficult to field, that they’ll use the time between when the ball hits in the landing zone to the time that a kick returner can field the ball as the “new hangtime” on the play. This offseason, the NFL moved the touchback from the 30-yard line to...

Hiring Joe Barry as the Packers’ defensive coordinator is one of the great errors of the Matt LaFleur era. The Packers’ 2021 defense was respectable, but things went downhill quickly under Barry’s guidance, though he’d hang on through the end of the 2023 season.

But on the occasion of the Packers facing the Carolina Panthers, we have the opportunity to thank one of the key contributors to the end of Barry’s tenure: Bryce Young.

Late in the 2023 season, the Packers were desperately trying to rally for a playoff spot and traveled to Carolina in Week 16 with their season...

The Green Bay Packers added three more injuries to their Thursday injury report. Quarterback Malik Willis had popped up as a limited participant with an ankle injury, right guard Jordan Morgan was limited on Thursday with an illness and linebacker Quay Walker was a non-participant due to a calf issue. Morgan has split time with Sean Rhyan this season, so that injury replacement would be straightforward. Meanwhile, Isaiah McDuffie, who has been the Packers’ third linebacker this year, has typically subbed in for Walker at the Mike position when Walker hasn’t been healthy. Ty’Ron Hopper, Green Bay’s 2024 third-round pick,...

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I want to say on the front end, I don’t think the Green Bay Packers are going to make a trade before the league’s deadline this year. There are a couple of reasons for that. First, the team is already down future draft picks following the trade for Micah Parsons. Secondly, the two positions that the Packers would probably target, defensive tackle and cornerback, are not particularly deep right now in the NFL.

Defensive tackle has been a dry market for all of 2025. In free agency, because of the lack of depth at the position, one-year starters received $15...

For the first time in a year, a Green Bay Packer has been named the NFC Defensive Player of the Month. This time, it’s newcomer Micah Parsons. This is his second time winning the award, first receiving the honor in September of 2023 as a member of the Dallas Cowboys, though I suspect this won’t be his last time winning the award as a Packer (how great does it feel to be able to say this?).

In the month of October, Parsons played 82% (167) of the Packers’ defensive snaps. He amassed 9 tackles (5 TFL), 4 sacks, and 6...

The Packers and Panthers hardly have a storied history — the Panthers serving as a stepping stone on the way to the Packers’ Super Bowl XXXI victory is about as rich as this matchup gets. But Packers players have put up quite a few memorable performances against the Panthers over the years. Here are a few of the highlights.

Most passing yards – 388 (Brett Favre, 1998)

The 1998 Packers raced out to a 4-0 start, the fourth win of which was a 37-30 win over the Panthers. The final score really wasn’t as close as it looked (the Packers...

On Sunday night, the Green Bay Packers got one of their more complete games of the season in their 35-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it was hardly perfect, as the team had plenty of issues in the first half that required a big second half performance to overcome.

Three three-and-outs before halftime were a sore spot that the team needs to address, and the running game was barely functioning for much of the game. Thankfully, turning the keys over to Jordan Love and letting him go wild worked, but the coaching staff will surely preach the value of...

Earlier today, it was revealed that the Green Bay Packers had signed cornerback Tyron Herring to the practice squad, based on him being spotted by the media at the Packers’ Wednesday practice. What we now know, though, is that Green Bay actually signed two practice squadders today, as the team announced that the Packers had also signed defensive lineman Dante Barnett.

Barnett began playing football for the NFL Academy, the league’s international prep development wing. For example, this year’s team traveled to Bradenton to play IMG Academy, a top prep program, and also hosted St. Thomas Aquinas, another top prep...

The Green Bay Packers held their first practice of the week on Wednesday after a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. In it, three players were non-participants: receiver Dontayvion Wicks (calf), defensive end Lukas Van Ness (foot) and linebacker Nick Niemann (pectoral). Both Wicks and Van Ness were inactive due to injury against the Steelers, while Niemann dropped out of the game with an injury. As of now, the Packers are calling Van Ness’ status day-to-day.

The limited players in practice today for Green Bay were running back Josh Jacobs (calf), receiver Christian Watson (knee), left guard Aaron...