On track to be dangerous team in 2025

2024 Wasn’t Meant To Be the Packers’ Year

The Green Bay Packers' roster was hit hard by key injuries, including Jordan Love’s sprained MCL, Jaire Alexander’s torn PCL, and Christian Watson’s torn ACL. Jordan Morgan dealt with a shoulder injury, Romeo Doubs suffered a concussion, and Evan Williams struggled with a quad issue. Quay Walker and Javon Bullard also battled ankle injuries. Overall, it was far from Green Bay’s healthiest season. Jaire Alexander missed all six NFC North games for the Packers. Sam Darnold and Jared Goff had little trouble exploiting Green Bay's secondary, while Eric Stokes, Keisean Nixon, and Carrington Valentine struggled to cover Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Jameson Williams.

As for Jordan Love, his availability wasn’t the issue—he missed just two games. However, his MCL injury had a noticeable impact on how Matt LaFleur balanced the offense between under-center and shotgun formations.

The 2024 Packers couldn’t stop getting in their own way, but the football gods had a hand in them falling short of the ultimate goal. They were a good team, but not a great one yet. The mistakes they made this year will only fuel their growth in 2025, when everything could finally fall into place. There’s more reason for optimism than pessimism about next year’s Packers. After improving from 8 wins to 9, and then to 11 over the past three seasons, they’re on track to be a dangerous team in 2025 if that trend continues.

Packers Must Address Their Platoons This Offseason

While it was a tough season for some star Green Bay Packers, like Rashan Gary, Kenny Clark, and Jaire Alexander, a handful of young players trying to establish themselves on the roster arguably faced more challenges making an impact in the 2024 season.

Coming into the year, players such as Lukas Van Ness, any of the wide receivers, or Devonte Wyatt were expected to ascend into greater roles and make their way toward the lights of stardom. Instead, under new hotshot defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and a change to a more run-dominant offense, many young Packers found themselves sharing the wealth of snaps with numerous players at their positions.

While the season was still successful, with the Packers again dancing in the playoffs as the youngest team in football, this offseason will require the Packers' General Manager, Brian Gutekunst, to take a hard look at their platoons at wide receiver, defensive end, and defensive tackle. Meanwhile, Head Coach Matt LaFleur and Hafley will need to recalibrate a plan to get the most out of the 11 players they run out.

Move Malik Willis for the Right Price?

What is the job of a backup quarterback? Well, it depends on what team you ask in a given year. If a franchise is heading into the season with questions about who their starting quarterback should be, then the backup job may be to stay sharp and challenge for that starting job. If they already have a Franchise quarterback, the backup job may be to remain vigilant if they're needed as an insurance policy. Sometimes that backup job may belong to a solid veteran who can lead the team if necessary. Other times it could belong to a young developing QB who could either be the QB of the future or perhaps they could end up a trade piece for that franchise later on. The Green Bay Packers have mainly found themselves with a Franchise QB in the last 30 years, so their backup position has fluctuated between vet backup and young development. This past season in 2024, they found themselves with a bit of a mix of both.

Your guess is as good as ours whether or not Malik Willis will be a Packer next year or if he'll be traded. One thing is for sure: If the Packers simply move on from him next year, it will feel as if we let him go for nothing. If a team comes calling willing to give up mid-round and above draft capital for Malik Willis, the Packers should seriously consider it.

Reacting to Packers coaching staff moves

CHTV co-founder Aaron Nagler and Justis Mosqueda from ACME Packing Company react to the news that the Green Bay Packers have fired defensive line coach Jason Rebrovich. The two also discuss who might be next in line as quarterbacks coach after the retirement of Tom Clements.

Can Nixon Really Be the Packers Top Cornerback?

When the Green Bay Packers were clearing out their locker rooms last week, many players addressed the media before heading home for the offseason. One of the more surprising quotes came from cornerback Keisean Nixon. “I’m kind of over it,” Nixon said, referring to returning kicks. “I don’t really want to do it no more. There’s going to be talks with the coaching staff and stuff like that, but I think it’s over with for me. I want to be CB1. CB1 is not doing kick returns. That’s just what it is.”

Head coach Matt LaFleur responded to Nixon’s statement. “That was interesting,” LaFleur said. “Keisean and I have a really good relationship, and we have a meeting to talk about this. I love Kei, I do. I love how he prepares. I’m not sure why he said what he said.”

There are two separate questions here. The first is whether Nixon should continue to return kicks and the second is if he’s capable of being the team’s top cover corner.

Packers free agents: Who stays and who goes?

CHTV co-founder Aaron Nagler looks at a number of pending Packers free agents and gives his prediction for which ones will be back in Green and Gold in 2025.

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Should the Packers Pursue a Veteran Receiver?

After Green Bay’s offense sputtered in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, they now enter the offseason looking for answers. The wide receiver position has come into focus, as a talented, young group did not kick on in their second year together, as many hoped they would. Christian Watson’s late-season knee injury has cast further doubt as to whether the Packers have what they need at wide receiver ahead of a pivotal 2025 season. They struggled to create explosive plays without Watson in the lineup.

This has led to plenty of discussion around adding a veteran receiver to the room this offseason. Is this something Green Bay should be considering?

There are the obvious options like signing soon-to-be former Bengals receiver Tee Higgins in free agency. Then there are the pie in the sky options, like trading for Chris Olave or Garrett Wilson, who may want out of their less than ideal situations entering the last year of their rookie deals. Is Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst going to be willing to give up draft capital and shell out a contract? Don’t count on it.

It is not a straightforward decision, and frankly, if Watson had not suffered a serious knee injury, this would probably not even be a point of discussion. The most likely conclusion is that the Packers back their current group to improve in 2025, but there are opportunities to augment the wide receiver room if Gutekunst wants to be aggressive.

The Draft Industrial Complex: Introduction to the 2025 Draft

CHTV co-founder Aaron Nagler explores the NFL draft process each and every week with Tyler Brooke, NFL Analyst with The 33rd Team. For their first episode, they go into why they wanted to start this pod, take a look at recent NFL draft news, give an overview of upcoming All-Star games, dive into the strengths and weaknesses of the 2025 draft class and much more.

Should the Packers Pick Up 5th Year Options for Walker and Wyatt?

Packers GM Brian Gutekunst must decide this offseason whether or not to pick up the fifth-year options on the two players the team selected in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft: linebacker Quay Walker and defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt.

Both players are already under contract for 2025. However, the Packers can use the fifth-year option to sign each player to a one-year deal for 2026 that would be fully guaranteed. The cost of using the option has now been announced. For Walker, it would be $16.06 million. For Wyatt, $13.098 million.

There would be no signing bonus or way to stretch out the cap hit on this one. The cap hit would be the exact amount listed. If the Packers opt to sign these players using the option, they would not be able to hit free agency until after the 2026 campaign.

Both Walker and Wyatt were productive players last season, but neither was a star. Walker played 13 games and had 102 total tackles. That includes 2.5 sacks, two passes broken up, and nine tackles for loss. He led the team in tackles despite missing four games. His speed is a definite asset. Walker struggles at times to read plays and many of his tackles occur downfield, but as the season progressed, he did make more plays closer to the line of scrimmage.

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