NFL: The Green Bay Packers will be relying on their defense heavily in 2023. Jordan Love, Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs, and Aaron Jones will be an exciting nucleus to watch, however, it may take a little while for the offense to gel. In the meantime, the defense will be asked to keep the team in the game.
Over the last five games of the 2022 NFL season, the Packers defense held their opponents to just 17 points per game. One player who was vital to the defense’s success in 2022 was De’Vondre Campbell. Reports surfaced during and after the season that Campbell was dealing with injuries throughout the year last year. That won’t be the case going into 2023.
De’Vondre Campbell Will Be 100% Going Into 2023 For The Green Bay Packers (NFL)

Packers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell says he’s finally healthy this offseason, after playing through injuries last year. Campbell wrote on Twitter that the Packers’ Week Seven game against the Commanders, in which he had three tackles for loss and a pick-six, was the only game of the year in which he was fully healthy.
“I was just hitting my stride this game starting to feel like myself after dealing with a nagging shoulder that I never told anyone about and then I injured my knee the next game in Buffalo . I never question Gods plan but I’m feeling 100% healthy and everyone gotta deal with me,” Campbell said.
Campbell, 30, returned to his full-time role in Week 13, and despite the shoulder and knee ailments, his performance did not suffer much, at least in the eyes of the advanced metrics. Pro Football Focus assigned him a 75.6 overall grade, a mark that included a particularly high 81.0 score in the all-important “coverage” category and positioned him as the NFL’s 15th-best linebacker among 81 qualifiers. In his standout 2021 season, PFF gave him an 85.0 overall grade.
What To Expect From De’Vondre Campbell In 2023?
De’Vondre Campbell says he is now completely healthy, and the Green Bay Packers will need him to continue playing at a high level. Green Bay still has a chance of winning a questionable NFC North, or to at least earn a wildcard berth, despite transitioning from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love at quarterback. If that happens, it will likely be because the club’s defense, a middling unit in 2022, returns to the top-10 form it displayed the year prior. Campbell, who calls the defensive signals, will be central to that effort.
The Green Bay Packers were of course not going to move on from Campbell this offseason given their financial commitment to him and his importance to the defense. Still, it is notable that the team did not make any draft or free agency investments at the ILB position, so it is clear that Green Bay has plenty of faith in Campbell and his running mate, 2022 first-rounder Quay Walker.
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