Coming off a memorable postseason in 2010, Packers cornerback Tramon Williams suffered a serious shoulder injury in the first game of 2011 that still hasn’t fully healed. A year earlier, in the Packers’ run to Super Bowl XLV, Williams emerged as one of the top cover corners in football. That season, Williams started all 16 games […]
Casey Hayward
Casey Hayward: What’s in store for his encore?
Packers cornerback Casey Hayward was the 62nd overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, but he was among most impactful defensive backs in football last season. According to Pro Football Focus, opposing quarterbacks had a collective passer rating of 31.1 when throwing at Hayward. And among cornerbacks who played at least 50 percent of their […]
Packers Defense: Who’s Still On the Way Up?
Here we are at the start of the 2013 NFL season. Let the great debates roll on! Sign a FA? Keep your own? Difference maker free agent? Hole filler? Last gasp? Which leads to next big thing, the team has to draft this position this year! { fill in your choice}. Everyone goes nuts this […]
2013 Packers Position Group Analysis: Cornerbacks
Packers Cornerbacks: All eyes were on the cornerback group during Training Camp in 2012. This unit, above all others, had some serious competition going on for a starting job. And the result was that this competition continued throughout the season until we ended up with Tramon Williams, Sam Shields, and Casey Hayward as the clear […]
Packers Playmakers: Where Do The Chips Fall?
Now that my fellow staff members and I have completed our annual player evaluations and report cards, I thought it might be fun to take a look at the Green Bay Packers’ impact players. Taking a page from Michael Lombardi, former NFL Network analyst who now works in the front office for the Cleveland Browns, I have categorized the players into representational colored chips.