Paul Richardson Can Fulfill Green Bay’s Need For Speed As much as the Packers’ brain trust, most fans and Aaron Rodgers himself held high hopes for recent free-agent acquisition Devin Funchess, the veteran wideout’s decision to opt out of the 2020 season shouldn’t have much of an impact on his team’s fortunes. That assessment in…
As the second-year head coach of the NFC North Champion Packers who came within one game of playing in Super Bowl LIV, Matt LaFleur enters the season as a big white-tailed deer with a crimson red bull’s eye on his back. Some analysts, however, attribute last year’s 13-3 record to an inordinate dose of good…
Can the second-year back rebound from a dismal rookie campaign? Within the span of one season, highly-celebrated sixth-round pick Dexter Williams has seen his stock tumble to the depths of now being an afterthought with little to no chance of making the opening day roster. Entering training camp, the Notre Dame product finds himself in…
As much as diehard Cheeseheads love to make the case for guys like Devin Funchess or Marquez Valdes-Scantling drastically elevating their games and ultimately emerging as valuable weapons behind Davante Adams and Allen Lazard, the Packers receiving corps is essentially the NFL’s version of T.J. Maxx — an off-price source of knockoff goods disguised as…
Once promising draft picks who fizzled out in Titletown As a general rule, most NFL prospects chosen over the first two days — or first three rounds — of the draft are expected to flourish as cornerstones who will either develop into foundational mainstays or at the very least become solid rotational contributors. These are…
Expectations for Aaron Rodgers entering his 16th NFL season seem to be lower than they ever have been in recent memory, as the Packers’ brain trust has seemingly fast tracked his eventual departure by trading up to draft the 36-year-old’s heir apparent in Jordan Love. But are No. 12’s waning stats and the team’s apparent…
Which ones will make the cut? With 25 players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Packers boast the second most athletes in the hallowed halls of Canton, Ohio, but can easily see that total increase over the next decade. Being a Packers’ diehard, it’s not easy separating the very good from the all-time…