10 statistical nuggets from the Packers’ 2025 season so far

Through two games, we’ve seen a bunch of interesting and intriguing stuff from the Packers. Jordan Love is throwing bombs, Micah Parsons is chasing quarterbacks, and the team is winning. There’s a lot to like!

But what about hard and fast numbers? How are the Packers faring in that context? Pretty darn good, it turns out. Here’s a quick look at some interesting statistical nuggets from the Packers’ 2025 season to date.

So far this season, Jordan Love has posted an Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt of 9.76. That’s just a few ticks behind Justin Herbert’s 9.84 for the league lead, and it’s currently the best figure in Packers history among players who have thrown at least 50 passes in a season. It’s even better than Aaron Rodgers’ otherworldly 9.39 ANY/A he posted in 2011, his first MVP campaign — though Rodgers obviously sustained it a lot longer than Love has.

Elsewhere in the Packers’ backfield, Josh Jacobs is carrying a huge load for the green and gold this year. He has touched the ball a whopping 43 times so far this year. No other player has even hit double digits yet; Tucker Kraft is the closest with nine. That number puts Jacobs on pace for more than 365 touches this year, which would be the second-highest number of his career.

Jacobs is getting so much work in part because nobody else in the Packers’ stable of backs is doing much. In fact, it’s actually a wide receiver who has the second-most rushing yards this year. Behind Jacobs’ 150 yards, it’s Savion Williams that comes next in the Packers’ season rushing totals with 24 yards so far. Williams is also responsible for the longest rush of the Packers’ season so far. His 16-yard run out of a wildcat formation is the longest carry by a Packers player so far this year.

Speaking of carries, Matthew Golden has as many carries (two) as catches (two) so far in his young NFL career. It might be tempting to call that a slow start, and I suppose it is in some respects, but it’s also true that the Packers haven’t really needed him to carry much of the offensive load so far this year. He’s only a bit behind the pace of the last receiver the Packers took in the first round: Javon Walker, all the way back in 2002. Through his first two games, Walker caught five passes for 83 yards and a touchdown and carried the ball once for 11 yards. Golden has two catches for 16 yards and two carries for 15 yards so far in 2025.

Tucker Kraft isn’t struggling to put up yards, though. In the Packers’ Thursday night win over the Commanders, his six catch, 124-yard, one touchdown effort was the best game by a Green Bay tight end since Richard Rodgers’ eight catch, 146-yard, one touchdown game in 2015, which was repeatedly noted during the Thursday Night Football broadcast. Rodgers, of course, got 61 of his 146 yards on the final play of the game. Those 61 yards represented 9.2% of Rodgers’ career receiving yards to that point and would ultimately account for 5.2% of his yards during his entire Packers tenure.

Kraft, meanwhile, had a 57-yard catch and run on Thursday night, and if you’re scoring at home, that amounts to 4.7% of his career yards to this point. That ultimately doesn’t mean anything, but I just think it’s neat.

On the defensive side of the ball, we’re experiencing a nearly unprecedented interception drought by Xavier McKinney. Dating back to the Packers’ playoff loss to the Eagles last year, McKinney has been held without an interception in three straight games, the second-longest pick-less run of his Packers career. He also went pick-less from Weeks 12-16 last year. Outside of that streak and the one he’s currently in, he’s never gone more than two consecutive games without an interception.

Keisean Nixon is making plenty of plays on the ball, though. He had five passes defensed on Thursday night, just the fifth time a Packers player has had that many in a single game. The other players to do it were Jaire Alexander, Ahmad Carroll, and Mike McKenzie, who managed to do it twice.

He wasn’t the only player knocking down passes, though. Defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt had two passes defensed on Thursday night, becoming the first Packers defensive lineman to have two in a game since Karl Brooks did it against the Rams in November 2023. It’s also more passes defensed than former Packers cornerback Eric Stokes had over the final three years of his time in Green Bay.

Finally, Edgerrin Cooper has been an absolute tackling machine. Projecting stats over two games is obviously a bit dubious, but Cooper’s stats are still worth monitoring. He’s on pace for a whopping 187 combined tackles (solo tackles and assists) this season, which would be truly unprecedented. Dating back to 1987 (the farthest back Pro Football Reference’s tackle numbers go), only one Packers player has broken 150 combined tackles; Blake Martinez did it in 2019, logging 155. No Packers player for whom we have official data has broken 160 tackles in a season, though according to the team’s 2024 media guide, the Packers’ internal record keeping credits Martinez with a whopping 203 tackles in 2019. I can’t account for the 58 tackles the Packers gave Martinez that the NFL didn’t, but if that’s the home cooking Martinez got, Cooper seems likely to put up some truly monstrous figures this year.

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