Claude Perry was accustomed to winning. Born in Goodsprings, Alabama on October 31, 1901, he was part of the state champion Walker High School team in 1922. Moving on to the University of Alabama he played on back-to-back National Champs and played in the 1926 (victory over Washington) and ’27 (tie with Stanford) Rose Bowls.
Those Crimson Tide teams were coached by Wallace Wade and led by tailback Johnny Mack Brown, who went on to have a 40-year career as an actor in Hollywood, mostly in B-movie westerns. On the line, though, were two other future Packers: guards Jim Bowdoin and Bruce Jones. Jones and Perry came to Green Bay in 1927 and Bowdoin a year later.
In nine years from 1927-35, Perry appeared in 89 games for the Packers with 36 starts. A reliable performer at tackle, he played for the first three Packer championship teams, although at the start of November 1931, Claude and end Ken Radick were loaned to the Brooklyn Dodgers for the remainder of that season. The following August, Perry reported to the Packers again. In the interim, he played in four games for the Dodgers, including one against the visiting Packers.
Perry was a 6’1” 200-pounder who played without a helmet. He turned 34 in his final year in Green Bay in 1935 but was not finished with pro football. In 1936, he joined the Pittsburgh Americans of the second American Football League and played with them in ’37 as well. He finally finished his playing career at age 37 with the St. Louis Gunners of that same AFL in 1938.
In 1942, Claude enlisted in the Marines and served stated side during the War. He coached at Parrish High School in Alabama from 1946-49 and then worked as an assistant to head coach Earl Gatman at Howard College (now Stamford University) in Alabama in 1950 when the team was quarterbacked by future coach Bobby Bowden. Perry also worked in farming and coal mining. He died at age 73 in his hometown of Goodsprings on July 17, 1975.
2012 marks the start of a three-year streak of the Packers bookending a season with losses to the same West Coast team. In this case, the Pack dropped the opener 30-22 to the 49ers at Lambeau and finished the year by getting whipped badly 45-31 in San Francisco in the divisional round, with Colin Kaepernick passing for 263 yards and running for 181. That playoff loss was a disgrace defensively. It looked as if Coordinator Dom Capers had not devised any answers to Kaepernick’s known propensity for running.
The season began with the officials on strike, and the Packers paid for that in week three with a last second loss to the Seahawks on the infamous “Fail Mary” 24-yard touchdown pass from rookie Russell Wilson to Golden Tate. Not only did Tate blatantly interfere with Sam Shields, but MD Jennings intercepted the pass. The real officials were back on duty the next week.
The Packers finished 11-5. They scored 433 points (fifth) and gave up 336 (11th). They were 7-0 against losing teams and just 4-5 against winning ones. They were 7-1 at home and 4-4 on the road. Their one free agent signing, center Jeff Saturday, was benched by season’s end.
Aaron Rodgers started all 16 games and completed 67.2% of his passes for 4,295 yards, 39 touchdowns and eight interceptions, while averaging 7.8 yards per pass. Graham Harrell went two for four for 20 yards.
Alex Green led the team in rushing with a paltry 464 yards, and Rodgers added 259.
Randall Cobb caught 80 passes for 954 yards and eight TDs, while adding a 75-yard punt return score as well. James Jones caught 64 for 784 yards and 14 scores, while a banged-up Jordy Nelson added 49 catches for 745 yards and seven touchdowns. Jermichael Finley grabbed 61 passes; Greg Jennings dropped to 36 receptions in his final year in Green Bay. Mason Crosby led the team with 113 points.
On defense, rookie Casey Hayward nabbed six interceptions and Sam Shields three. Clay Matthews recorded 13 sacks, followed by Mike Neal’s 4.5
Hayward received some All-Pro recognition, while Rodgers and Matthews were named second team. Rodgers, Matthews, Josh Sitton and, ridiculously, Jeff Saturday, were selected for the Pro Bowl. Nick Perry was the first round draft pick, and Jerrel Worthy came in round two, but second rounder Hayward and fourth rounder Mike Daniels were the real top picks.
This is the 1,000 post I have written for this blog. I have been posting on Packer history three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) for 6 and a half years now. I am about to slow down my output to twice a week (Wednesdays and Sundays) until the end of the year when I finish the A Look Back series with the Packers 100th NFL season 2020. At that point, I will be posting once a week on Sundays to free up time for other research.
Today, I thought, would be a good time to look back at some statistical markers over the team’s first 100 seasons in the NFL. I thought we could look at the team’s All-Time leaders and the leaders from the pre-modern Lambeau era, as well as note any current players moving up the lists.
In the NFL’s history through the 2020 season, only the Bears (777) have won more games than the Packers (769), and Green Bay has the highest wining percentage (.571) in league history, topping the Cowboys (.570), Ravens (.565) and Bears (.564). The Pack has made the postseason more times (34) than any other team, followed by the Cowboys (33), Steelers and Giants (32 apiece). Their .600 post season winning percentage is second only to New England’s .638. Most important, Green Bay’s 13 championships dwarf the next two teams, the Bears with nine and the Giants with eight.
Ranked by passing yards, here are the top Packer passers:
W-L
W/L %
Pass %
Yards
TDs
INTs
Y/A
Rating
Brett Favre
160-93
0.632
61.4
61,653
442
286
7
85.8
Aaron Rodgers
126-63-1
0.662
65.1
51,245
412
89
7.8
103.9
Bart Starr
94-57-6
0.618
57.4
24,718
152
138
7.8
80.5
Lynn Dickey
43-56-2
0.436
56.2
21,369
133
151
7.5
73.8
Tobin Rote
26-46-1
0.363
44.6
11,535
89
119
6.2
54.4
Don Majkowski
22-26-1
0.459
55.3
10,870
56
56
6.8
73.5
While Aaron Rodgers should pass Favre in TDs (he’s now at 424), he likely won’t stay long enough to record more wins or yards. The early day leaders:
Pass %
Yards
TDs
INTs
Y/A
Rating
Arnie Herber
40.6
6,749
66
90
6.7
48.5
Cecil Isbell
50.2
5,945
61
52
7.3
72.1
Packer Rushing Leaders
Yards
Avg.
TDs
Ahman Green
8,322
4.5
54
Jim Taylor
8,207
4.5
81
John Brockington
5,024
3.9
29
Tony Canadeo
4,197
4.1
26
Ryan Grant
4,143
4.3
27
Aaron Jones started the season eleventh in yards with 3,364, is now at 3,749 and should end the year fourth in team history.
Tony Canadeo represents the Lambeau Era, but here are the other leading rushers from the time:
Yards
Avg.
TDs
Tony Canadeo
4,197
4.1
26
Clarke Hinkle
3,860
3.3
35
Verne Lewellen
2,393
3.4
37
Ted Fritsch
2,200
3.5
31
(Lewellen’s numbers are unofficial and were gathered by David Neft from newspaper accounts)
Here are the Receiving Leaders by number of catches:
Recept.
Yards
Avg
TDs
Donald Driver
743
10,137
13.6
61
Sterling Sharpe
595
8,134
13.7
65
Jordy Nelson
550
7,848
14.3
69
Davante Adams
546
6,568
12
62
James Lofton
530
9,656
18.2
49
Moving up on the list is Davante Adams. Adams, now at 592, should pass Sharpe in catches this week for second all-time. In yards, he has moved from ninth to sixth with 7,236, but will most likely trail only Driver, Lofton and maybe Sharpe by season’s end. In TD catches, he is fourth with 64, but with six more, he will trail only Hutson,
Here are the leaders from the Lambeau Era:
Recept.
Yards
Avg
TDs
Don Hutson
488
7,991
16.4
99
Johnny Blood
119
2,134
17.9
29
Nolan Luhn
100
1,525
15.3
13
Clyde Goodnight
89
1,632
18.3
13
(Blood’s numbers are unofficial and were gathered by David Neft from newspaper accounts)
Another way to rank the receivers is by yards per catch:
Avg
Carroll Dale
19.7
Max McGee
18.4
Billy Howton
18.4
James Lofton
18.2
Johnny Blood
17.9
Don Hutson
16.4
And let’s take a look at tight ends:
Recept.
Yards
Avg
TDs
Paul Coffman
322
4,223
13.1
39
Buba Franks
256
2,300
9
31
Jemichael Finley
223
2,785
12.5
20
Scoring is, of course, dominated by current kicker Mason Crosby, who has extended his total by 48 points thru six games.:
Points
Mason Crosby
1,686
Ryan Longwell
1,054
Don Hutson
825
Chris Jacke
820
Paul Hornung
760
Don Hutson led the franchise in scoring for decades and by a wide margin in the Lambeau Era:
Points
Don Hutson
825
Ted Fritsch
380
Clarke Hinkle
379
As to Touchdowns, Hutson remains the All-Time leader:
TDs
Don Hutson
105
Jim Taylor
91
Jordy Nelson
69
Ahman Green
68
Sterling Sharpe
66
Davante Adams should be in third place by season’s end.
Early leaders in TDs:
TDs
Don Hutson
105
Verne Lewellen
51
Clarke Hinkle
44
Johnny Blood
38
Four times Crosby has booted at least 36 field goals in a season, but here are the All-Time leaders from the Lambeau Era:
FG
Ted Fritsch
36
Clarke Hinkle
28
Desmond Howard (13.8) and Billy Grimes (13.2) are the leading punt returners by average. Howard, Will Blackmon and Micah Hyde each ran back three punts for scores. Dave Hampton (28.2), Travis Williams and Roell Preston (26.7 each) are the leading kick returners by average. Williams ran back five for TDs and Hampton three.
On defense, the leading interceptors among current players, Darnell Savage with seven and Kevin King with six, have a long way to go to crack this list:
INTs
Bobby Dillon
52
Willie Wood
48
Herb Adderley
39
Leroy Butler
38
Charles Woodson
38
Darren Sharper
36
Irv Comp
34
Mark Lee
31
Don Hutson
30 (official total, 1940-)
Tramon Williams
30
To get the best reading on the leaders from the Lambeau Era, I went to Packer numbers guru Eric Goska:
INTs
Joe Laws
39
Don Hutson
38
Irv Comp
34
Clarke Hinkle
29
Johnny Blood
29
Charley Brock
28
Lavie Dilweg
23
Leaders of pick sixes:
INT TDs
Charles Woodson
9
Herb Addeley
7
Bobby Dillon
5
Darren Sharper
5
Nick Collins
4
Charley Brock
3
Willie Wood
3
Doug Hart
3
Sack leaders among current players are Zadairius Smith (26.) and Kenny Clarke (currently 21.5). Here’s what they are shooting for:
The defending champion Packers opened 2011 with a thrilling 42-34 victory over the Saints that would prove a harbinger for this ultimately disappointing 15-1 season. The offense scored the most points in the league with 560 (35 per game), while the defense had a mediocre showing by giving up 359 (19th). However, the defense was worse than that, finishing 32nd both in passing yards and total yards allowed. The one game the offense failed to score at least 24 points was the season’s only loss to Kansas City.
When Green Bay hosted New York in the divisional playoff round, they became the first 15-1 team to lose its only postseason match. The team was listless in the first half, but still only trailed 13-10 before a last play Hail Mary to Hakeem Nicks put the Giants up by ten at the half. Final score 37-20.
So what happened to the defense? Nick Collins went down to a career-ending injury; the versatile, underrated Cullen Jenkins left as a free agent; the production of Clay Matthews and BJ Raji dropped precipitously; and Charles Woodson began showing signs of age. The Packers were 8-0 at home and 7-1 on the road; 5-0 against winners, 5-0 against .500 teams and 5-1 to losing teams.
Aaron Rodgers started the first 15 games and completed 68.3% of his passes for 4,643 yards, 45 touchdowns and six interceptions, while averaging 9.2 yards per pass. Matt Flynn threw for 480 yards, six touchdowns and two interceptions in the 45-41 finale against the Lions.
Ryan Grant returned to rush for 559 yards, but John Starks led the team with 578 and Rodgers added 257.
Jordy Nelson caught 68 passes for 1,243 yards and 15 touchdowns, while Greg Jennings grabbed 67 for 949 and nine scores. Jermichael Finley caught 55 and scored eight times, James Jones caught 38 and scored seven times and Donald Driver snagged 37 for six scores. Rookie Randall Cobb had 25 catches as well as an 80-yard punt return and a 108-yard kick return. Mason Crosby scored 140 points.
On defense, the team intercepted 31 passes to keep them in games and scored four times on pick-sixes. Charles Woodson led with seven interceptions and Charles Peprah had five. Sacks dropped from 47 to 29, with Clay Matthews leading with six, followed by Desmond Bishop’s five.
Rodgers and Woodson made All-Pro, while Nelson, Matthews, Josh Sitton, Bryan Bulaga and John Kuhn all were named second team. Rodgers, Jennings, Matthews, Woodson, Raji and Scott Wells were all picked for the Pro Bowl. Rodgers won his first NFL MVP award.
William “Buddy” Brown was born on October 19, 1925, in Wynne, Arkansas. Following high school, Brown entered the Army and served in the Pacific Theater–China, Burma and India. According to a 1955 article by Art Daley in the Green Bay Press Gazette, he was a member of the famed Merrill’s Marauders. However, that is not mentioned in Buddy’s obituary, and I can find no corroboration for that fact.
After the service, Buddy enrolled at the University of Arkansas and lettered in football all three years from 1948-50 where he was a teammate of Hawg Hanner. The 6’1” 220-pound guard was then drafted in the 19th round in 1951 by the Redskins and spent two seasons in Washington, the second as a starter. Skins’ coach Curly Lambeau released Brown on September 23, 1953, and the Packers claimed him on October 3, one week into the season.
Buddy would appear in the next 47 games for the Packers from 1953-56, mostly as a starter. For the latter three seasons, he was the captain of the offense. In his final season, he was part of a three-guard starting rotation with Len Szafaryn and Joe Skibinski. At age 31 in 1956, he decided to retire and announced it prior to the close of the year. After a 49-21 loss to the Rams in the ’56 finale, Buddy optimistically commented, “I sure would have liked to end it all with a victory, but I guess everybody’s got to take the bad with the good. [Blackbourn] will win it all someday, but you can’t do it without some horses to pull the plough. He’s a good sound coach, and he’s bound to start winning plenty.”
After football, Brown worked as a high school teacher and sold insurance before getting into the office products industry as a manufacturer’s representative. Eventually, he retired to Horseshoe Bay, Texas, and died in nearby Marble Falls on February 23, 2004, at age 78. He was survived by his wife, son, daughter, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
End Ray Riddick was born on October 17, 1917 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Riddick attended Lowell High and then went to prep school at Archmere Academy in Delaware for two years before enrolling at Fordham where he played under Coach Jim Crowley from 1937-39.
The 6’1” 210-pound Riddick signed with the Packers as a free agent in 1940. He appeared in 24 games, starting 17, over the next three seasons and caught 20 passes for 1 TD at the other end of the line from Don Hutson. He was especially noted for his defensive play. He then went into the Navy and spent the War at St. Mary’s Pre-Flight in California.
In 1946, he worked as an assistant coach at Dartmouth and then returned to the Packers for the last two games of the season after Dartmouth’s season concluded. He then returned to his high school alma mater and coached there for the next 28 years, winning 180, losing 73 and tying 14. Under Ray, Lowell had ten undefeated seasons in that stretch.
Riddick died suddenly at age 58 on July 14, 1976, in Lowell. He was survived by his wife of 35 years, his son Ray Jr. who played football at Yale, two daughters and two grandchildren.
Born in Los Angeles on October 14, 1908, Adolph Schwammel, known as “Ade” or “Tar,” graduated from Freemont High School in Oakland and then entered the Navy. Eventually, he matriculated at Oregon State College in 1930. A tackle, he lettered on the gridiron in 1931, ’32 and ’33 at OSC, earning All-America status as a senior.
There were several notable games in Ade’s senior year. The Beavers tied the two-time national champion USC Trojans at 0 and broke USC’s 25-game winning streak by playing only 11 men, including Schwammel, without a single substitution, earning them the “Iron Men” nickname. Schwammel also appeared in a photo in the Saturday Evening Post that year depicting the “Pyramid Play” against the University of Oregon. In the Pyramid Play, the 6’2” Schammel and fellow 6’2” tackle Harry Fields boosted center Clyde Devine onto their shoulders to block a Ducks place kick. OSU utilized the play several times that year. It was sometimes successful and was banned subsequently by the NCAA. Finally, Schammel won a tough game against Fordham in the Polo Grounds with a 46-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
Schwammel, Fields and Devine pull the Pyramid Play against Oregon.
Schwammel joined the Packers in 1934 and appeared in all 13 games, starting ten. In 1935, he appeared in 11 and started eight and was named All-Pro. Unfortunately, that season his 16-yard missed field goal with 55 seconds to play against the Cardinals on Thanksgiving cost Green Bay a victory that may have propelled them to the Western crown. The following season, the Packer won the championship, and Schwammel appeared in all 12 games, starting seven, and was named to the All-Pro second team.
When Ade and Curly Lambeau couldn’t agree on a contract in 1937, the burly tackle retired from football, having scored 26 points on six field goals and eight extra points. He went into business in his native California, but six years later at age 35 he returned to the Packers during World War II. He played in two games in ’43 and eight in the championship year of ’44.
At that point, he retired for good and four years later moved to Hawaii where he would live for the next 31 years, running his own business. He died from cancer on November 18, 1979, in Honolulu, survived by his wife, son and grandchild. He was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the OSU Hall of Fame in 1990.
2010 seemed to be a year that would be remembered for injuries and disappointment. Ryan Grant, Nick Barnett, Jermichael Finley, Morgan Burnett, Mark Tauscher and Brad Jones all were lost to injury, and the Packers were forever calling Next Man Up. The team reached a nadir when Aaron Rodgers was lost in a listless road loss to the Lions followed by a valiant road loss to the Patriots behind Matt Flynn to drop the squad to 8-6.
And then the Packers shifted into high gear, routing the Giants and outlasting the division-winning Bears to slip into the postseason as the last wildcard. They whipped the Eagles in Philadelphia 21-16, thoroughly dominated the top-seeded Falcons in Atlanta 48-21, and then went to Chicago to beat up the Bears 21-14 in a game highlighted by Aaron Rodgers tackle of Brian Urlacher after an interception, B.J. Raji’s 18-yard pick six and Sam Shields’ clinching interception. That is not to mention Charles Woodson’s postgame exhortation that if Bears fan Barack Obama won’t come to watch the Packers, they will visit him in the White House.
On to a Super Bowl for the ages. Green Bay got off to a fast 14-0 lead that extended to 21-3 before a late second quarter touchdown by the Steelers closed the gap to 21-10 at the half. Pittsburgh added another touchdown in the third quarter, but on the first play of the fourth quarter, Clay Matthews forced a fumble by Rashard Mendenhall that was recovered by Desmond Bishop at the Green Bay 38. The subsequent Packer drive put them up 28-17, but Pittsburgh answered with another TD and a two-point conversion to pull within three with 7:40 to go. Rodgers responded with a five-minute drive, highlighted by a third down 31-yard bullet to Greg Jennings over the middle, that lifted the score to 31-25. Roethlisberger could not answer, and the Packers had championship number 13, Super Bowl number four.
For the season, Green Bay was 7-1 at home and 3-5 on the road (6-5 including postseason); they were 4-3 against winning teams and 6-3 against losers. The team scored 388 points (tenth) but gave up just 240 (second) in Dom Capers high point as defensive coordinator.
Rodgers was 10-5 as a starter, completing 65.7% of his passes for 3,922 yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, while averaging 8.3 yards per pass and attaining a 101.2 passer rating. His post season numbers were even better: 68.2%, 1,094 yards, nine TDs, two picks. 8.3 per pass and 109.8 rating. Matt Flynn lost his only start but completed 60.6% of his passes for 433 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.
Brandon Jackson led the team in rushing with 703 yards but was replaced by rookie John Starks late in the season. Starks gained 101 yards in the regular season and 315 in the postseason. Rodgers added 356 yards on the ground.
Greg Jennings caught 76 passes for 1,265 yards and 12 touchdowns. Donald Driver caught 51, James Jones 50 and Jordy Nelson 45. Both Jennings and Nelson caught 21 passes in the postseason. Mason Crosby scored 112 points.
On defense the team was led by Tramon Williams’ six interceptions, and Nick Collins had four. NFL Defensive Player of the Year Clay Matthews had 13.5 sacks, followed by Cullen Jenkins’ seven and Raji’s 6.5.
Matthews and Josh Sitton were named All-Pro, with Rodgers, Raji, Williams, Woodson and Collins all gaining second team notice. Matthews, Woodson, Collins, Williams, Jennings and Chad Clifton all were picked for the Pro Bowl. Key rookies included top pick Bryan Bulaga who moved right into the starting lineup, sixth round pick Starks and free agents Sam Shields and punter Tim Masthay.
Merv Pregulman was born on October 10, 1922 in Lansing, Michigan and starred at tackle and center for the University of Michigan from 1941-43, earning All-America notice as a senior. Green Bay selected Merv with the seventh overall pick in 1944, but he would spend the next two years in the U.S. Navy as a gunnery officer on the USS Taluga, where he would survive a ten-plane kamikaze attack in April 1945.
After mustering out in 1946, Pregulman joined the Packers and appeared in 11 games, starting seven. Merv asked to be traded to the Lions so he could be closer to the furniture business he operated with his father, so Curly Lambeau traded him for guard Damon Tassos on June 13, 1947. Pregulman was also doing some coaching at Michigan State at the time.
Pregulman appeared in all 24 games for the Lions in the next two seasons, starting 17 and intercepting three passes on defense. He also scored 32 points as the team’s kicker in ‘48. In 1949, he got into a salary dispute, and the Lions dealt him to the New York Bulldogs for linemen John Treadway and John Prchlik on August 24th. After one season in New York, Merv retired from the NFL to devote himself to business. Two years later, he won a lawsuit against the Lions concerning a contractual payment due him once he was traded.
In 1957, he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee to run his wife’s family’s steel business and became a prominent community member and philanthropist. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982 and received the Gerald R. Ford Award from his alma mater in 2004 for “excellence in scholarship, sport and society.” He died in Chattanooga on November 29, 2012 at age 90.
As the Packers transitioned from one Hall of Fame quarterback to another, the decade of the 2000s was very successful, but still unsatisfying. Yes, the Packers had the second-best regular season record in the NFC, trailing only the Eagles, and the fifth overall (also behind AFC leaders the Colts, Patriots and Steelers), but nine NFC teams went to a Super Bowl in the decade. Green Bay was not one of the nine and had a dreary 3-6 record in the postseason.
Six times, the Packers were in the top five in scoring, seven times in the top 10, while twice they finished in the bottom third. On defense, the record was not as stellar. They were in the top ten in fewest points allowed three times, but also were in the bottom third three times.
Indianapolis Colts (1)
115
45
0
71.90%
New England Patriots (3)
112
48
0
70.00%
Pittsburgh Steelers (2)
103
56
1
64.70%
Philadelphia Eagles
103
56
1
64.70%
Green Bay Packers
95
65
0
59.40%
Denver Broncos
93
67
0
58.10%
Baltimore Ravens (1)
92
68
0
57.50%
Tennessee Titans
91
69
0
56.90%
New York Giants (1)
88
72
0
55.00%
San Diego Chargers
85
75
0
53.10%
Minnesota Vikings
84
76
0
52.50%
New Orleans Saints (1)
83
77
0
51.90%
Seattle Seahawks
82
78
0
51.20%
Dallas Cowboys
82
78
0
51.20%
Chicago Bears
81
79
0
50.60%
New York Jets
80
80
0
50.00%
Tampa Bay Bucs (1)
79
81
0
49.40%
Miami Dolphins
79
81
0
49.40%
Carolina Panthers
79
81
0
49.40%
Jacksonville Jaguars
76
84
0
47.50%
Atlanta Falcons
75
84
1
47.20%
St. Louis Rams
71
89
0
44.40%
Washington Redskins
70
90
0
43.80%
Kansas City Chiefs
70
90
0
43.80%
San Francisco 49ers
68
92
0
42.50%
Cincinnati Bengals
68
91
1
42.80%
Buffalo Bills
66
94
0
41.20%
Oakland Raiders
62
98
0
38.80%
Arizona Cardinals
62
98
0
38.80%
Cleveland Browns
57
103
0
35.60%
Houston Texans
49
79
0
38.30%
Detroit Lions
42
118
0
26.20%
Brett Favre was 78-50 as a starter, completing 61.6% of his passes for 30,671 yards, 207 touchdowns and 147 interceptions, while averaging seven yards per pass and gaining 371 yards on the ground. Aaron Rodgers went 17-15 as a starter, completing 64% of his passes for 8,801 yards, 59 touchdowns and 21 interceptions, while averaging 7.7 yards per pass and gaining 570 yards on the ground.
Ahman Green was the rushing leader with 8,322 yards. He averaged 4.5 yards per carry, scored 54 touchdowns and caught 350 passes for 14 scores. Ryan Grant gained 3,412 yards, averaged 4.4 per carry and scored 25 times on the ground.
Donald Driver paced all receivers with 642 receptions for 9,009 yards (14-yard avg.) and 48 TDs. Greg Jennings caught 246 passes for 3,957 yards (16.1 avg.) and 28 scores. Javon Walker caught 157 passes for 2,444 yards (15.6 avg.) and 22 scores. Bubba Franks added 256 catches for 2,300 yards (9-yard avg.) and 32 scores.
Ryan Longwell scored 693 points, Ahman Green 408 and Mason Crosby 390. Will Blackmon scored three times on punt returns while Antonio Chatman, Tramon Williams and Allen Rossum all did so once. Rossum was the only Packer to score on a kickoff return.
On defense, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila recorded 74.5 sacks, Aaron Kampman 54 and Cullen Jenkins 22. Darren Sharper pilfered 31 passes, Charles Woodson 28, Nick Collins 17 and Al Harris 14. Woodson scored on seven of those interceptions, Collins on four, Sharper on three and Harris on two.
Sharper and Favre drew All-Pro notice three times each; Green, Longwell, Kampman, Woodson and Collins twice each; and Harris, Marco Rivera, Mike Wahle, William Henderson and Nick Barnett once a piece. Favre and Green were selected to the Pro Bowl four times each; Franks, Driver and Rivera three times each; Sharper, Kampman, Harris, Collins and Woodson twice each; and Rodgers, KGB, Henderson, Walker, Chad Clifton, Mike Flanagan and Clay Matthews once a piece.
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