FINALLY: The Green Bay Packers are finding success playing their best players!

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It may seem simple, and it is: against the Minnesota Vikings, the Green Bay Packers focused on getting their best players on the field, and it worked! Plus, the six offensive linemen experiment is here to stay as a replacement for Tucker Kraft.

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0:00.0	The Green Bay Packers are finding success by just letting the good players play.
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1:15.1	Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings was an encapsulation of what it's like when you just let your best players play. And this has been something that we have seen across this
1:24.7	roster, whether it's receiver rotations, whether it's past rush rotations,
1:29.7	whether it's trying to make fetch happen with certain players. It wasn't so on Sunday. And that was
1:38.0	even with all of the issues, the injuries, the conservative approach because of the injuries, et cetera, et cetera.
1:47.1	And the number that really drove this home for me when I looked at the snap counts
1:51.5	was the receiver numbers.
1:55.9	Because Christian Watson played 74% of snaps.
2:00.0	He led all receivers. Romeo Dobbs played 71% of snaps.
2:07.8	That's how this has to work. Now, if you look on the other side, Jordan Addison played 98%.
2:12.1	Justin Jefferson played 100%. But the Packers, I don't know if you guys know this,
2:15.7	they don't have a Justin Jefferson level player on their team.
2:19.8	So it's fine with me to have Christian Watson and Romeo Dobbs play 75% of snaps.
2:26.6	That seems like the right balance to me.
2:28.7	Don Tavian Wicks played 48%.
2:30.5	Now, they didn't play a ton of 11 personnel in this game.
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