After a year without preseason games, the NFL starts the 2021 season with a new three-game version. For a team like the Green Bay Packers, with their strong sense of continuity from year to year, preseason wasn’t all that exciting. Aaron Rodgers would play few, if any, minutes. Yet the 2021 preseason is one of…
Every season there are a few players that blow expectations out of the water. They may lack the pedigree of a high draft pick, but nonetheless outperform those ahead of them on the depth chart and turn flashes of potential into meaningful roles. Last season, for example, saw tight end Robert Tonyan catch more touchdown…
It’s only July, but fantasy football players are already starting to think about the 2021 season. A lot remains to be seen with Aaron Rodgers’ situation, but until he isn’t dressed for Week 1 against the Saints, we must operate under the assumption that he is QB1. Here is Aaron Rodgers’ 2021 fantasy outlook: Depending…
Between incumbent options like Jaire Alexander, Adrian Amos, Darnell Savage, and Chandon Sullivan, resigned free agents like Kevin King, and draftees like Eric Stokes and Shemar Jean-Charles, the defensive secondary for the Green Bay Packers is going to be much harder to pick apart this upcoming season. There certainly are a few elements that go…
The Green Bay Packers’ 2021 minicamp has come to an end, leaving cheese heads with a five week lull in the NFL calendar before training camp kicks off early August. The dead period isn’t all bad, though. Now is the time for bold predictions, schedule breakdowns, and entertaining analysis as the excitement builds for the…
July 3, 2021
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Mike Price
3 Green Bay Packers Breakout Candidates for 2021
Who are the most likely 2021 Packers breakout candidates? Each season several Green Bay Packers players rise from mostly unheralded to key cogs in the machine. Last season, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Darnell Savage, and Rashan Gary elevated their play to levels previously unseen. The success of the 2021 Packers will depend on those three players continuing…
July 2, 2021
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Jordan Wolf
ILB Could Unlock Green Bay Packers Defense in 2021
One of the biggest question marks going into the upcoming season is the Packers defense. How will Joe Barry bring the best out of an incredibly talented group of players? How will he improve a unit that has wilted in some of the biggest moments? One major way that he can accomplish that is getting…