For the first time in a long time, Green Bay Packers fans can’t be on the lookout for one of the team’s players to reach some sort of significant milestone in franchise history. Or can they? Despite the youth on the Packers’ roster, there are several relatively unknown (and a little weird) milestones and stats that players can achieve this year.
Sure, they’re not as exciting as Mason Crosby becoming the franchise’s all-time leader in games played. Of course they are not as exciting as Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers taking top-three spots in team record books. But they’re fun and, if these milestones get achieved, could mean Green Bay has a pretty good season.
1. Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love Could Be Top-10 in Franchise History in Touchdown Passes By Season’s End
For the last 30 years, the Packers have had just two starting quarterbacks (aside from spot starts and injury-shortened seasons): Rodgers and Brett Favre. Still, the team has been around for over 100 years. Yet, Love needs 28 touchdown passes to get into the top 10 in team history.
Love has thrown three touchdown passes already in his very limited playing time over the course of the last two seasons. Currently, Randy Wright and Babe Parilli occupy the ninth and tenth spots in franchise history with 31 touchdown passes each.
In the modern 17-game season, Love would need to average 1.65 touchdown passes per game to get to 28 on the season.
The Packers’ current top-10 touchdown pass leaders are:
- Aaron Rodgers- 475
- Brett Favre-442
- Bart Starr- 152
- Lynn Dickey- 133
- Tobin Rote- 89
- Arnie Herber- 66
- Cecil Isbell- 61
- Don Majkowski- 56
- Randy Wright- 31
- Babe Parilli- 31
2. Jordan Love Can Reach 11th in Team History in Passing Yards
Speaking of Jordan Love and Babe Parilli, Love could potentially pass Bart Starr’s backup (for two years) for 11th on the team’s all-time passing yards list. So far in his career, Love has thrown for 606 yards. Parilli had 3,983 during his time in Green Bay. This means that Love would need 3,377 yards this season (an average of 198 yards per game) to move into 11th in franchise history.
Fun fact about Parilli: he started his career with the Packers and ended it with the New York Jets (with seven seasons with the Boston Patriots, including three Pro Bowl seasons, in between).
The Packers’ current top-11 passing yards leaders are:
- Brett Favre- 61,655
- Aaron Rodgers- 59,055
- Bart Starr- 24,718
- Lynn Dickey- 21,360
- Tobin Rote- 11,535
- Don Majkowski- 10,870
- Randy Wright- 7,106
- Arnie Herber- 6,749
- David Whitehurst- 6,205
- Cecil Isbell- 5,945
- Babe Parilli- 3,983
3. Green Bay Packers Running Back Aaron Jones Could Reach the Top-30 Receiving Yards Leaders in Franchise History
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Aaron Jones is already the Packers’ third all-time leading rusher with 5,248 yards. The two players ahead of him, Ahman Green (8,322) and Jim Taylor (8,207) are not reachable this season.
However, Jones, who ranks 36th in team history in receiving yards, could reach the top 30 this season. John Jefferson and Mark Chmura are 29th and 30th in team history with 2,253 yards. Jones has 1,843 yards, so in order to match them he would need 410 receiving yards (24.1 yards per game). If he attained this, it would be the second-highest receiving yards total in a season in Jones’ career (474 in 2019). Jones had 391 receiving yards in 2021 and 395 last season.
If Jones were to match his career-high of 474 receiving yards, it would give him 2,317 and place him 28th in franchise history ahead of some pretty notable names.
The Packers’ current 25th-36th receiving yards leaders are:
- Rich McGeorge- 2,370
- Perry Kemp- 2,341
- Ed West- 2,321
- Bubba Franks- 2,300
- Mark Chmura- 2,253
- John Jefferson- 2,253
- Allen Lazard- 2,236
- Marquez Valdes-Scantling- 2,153
- Dosrey Levens- 2,079
- Gary Knaflec- 1,930
- Edgar Bennett- 1,920
- Aaron Jones- 1,843
4. Green Bay Packers Cornerback Jaire Alexander Could Reach the Top-30 Interceptions List
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Last sesaon, Jaire Alexander set a career high with five interceptions. This doubled his career total, bringing him to 10 and 47th on the Packers’ all-time list. Matching his career-high again would catapult him into a tie for 30th.
The list of players ahead of Alexander on the Packers’ all-time interceptions list (30th-46th) is:
- Doug Hart- 15
- Val Joe Walker- 15
- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix- 14
- Al Harris- 14
- Lou Brock- 13
- Tom Brown- 13
- Chuck Cecil- 13
- Mike McCoy- 13
- Dave Brown- 12
- Doug Evans- 12
- Ace Loomis- 12
- Ted Cook- 11
- Dan Currie- 11
- Tom Flynn- 11
- Estus Hood- 11
- Herm Rohrig-11
5. Green Bay Packers Edge Rusher Preston Smith Could Reach 11th on the Team’s All-Time Sacks List
(NFL News)
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Preston Smith has 58 career sacks, and if they had all come with the Packers, he would be eighth in team history in that category. As it stands, 33.5 of them have come with Green Bay and he ranks 14th. In his four seasons with the Packers, Smith has posted 12.0, 4.0, 9.0, and 8.5 sacks respectively.
In order to surpass Mike Butler (41.5 sacks) for 11th in team history, Smith would need 8.0 sacks in 2023. Given his history, he should be able to reach that number.
The Packers’ top-14 sack leaders are:
- Willie Davis- 99.5
- Clay Matthews- 83.5
- Ezra Johnson- 82.0
- Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila- 74.5
- Reggie White- 68.5
- Lionel Aldridge- 62.0
- Henry Jordan- 59.5
- Tim Harris- 55.0
- Aaron Kampman- 54.0
- Clarence Williams- 51.0
- Mike Butler- 41.5
- Mike Douglass- 38.0
- Tony Bennett- 36.0
- Preston Smith- 33.5
By the way, Rashan Gary needs 6.5 sacks to get into the top 20.
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