The Green Bay Packers will be looking to go from “good” to “elite” during the 2025 off-season. Making the playoffs in back to back seasons with Jordan Love under center is no small feat. Taking the next step, however, might require a couple major moves.
One of those moves may have already happened.
“Once Again Become a Star” Packers Cornerstone Player Gets Huge Off-Season News
Adding DeMarcus Covington to the team is massive change, according to Andrew Kulha of Clutch Points:
Kenny Clark has been around for a while now, so it’s easy to forget that he was a first round pick for the Packers back in 2016. He’s always been consistently good, and he has three Pro Bowl seasons to his name, but the 2024 season was a down year for him.
He notched just 37 tackles and one sack. Compare that to 2023, when he notched 44 tackles and 7.5 sacks.
Clark is heading into his age 30 season but he absolutely still has something left in the tank, and there’s really no world that should see him with less than four sacks in a season. Taking out his rookie season and 2024, he averaged 4.9 sacks a season.
The Packers still have Clark under contract through 2027, so perhaps Covington can help him turn back time a bit and once again become a star.
The 2023 season saw Clark set or match career highs in sacks, tackles for loss, and quarterback hits. One sack, four tackles for loss, and five quarterback hits were recorded by Clark in 2024.
That drop off is a major concern and Green Bay needs Clark back to his old ways if this defensvie line is going to turn it around.
This is a look at Clark’s career stats:
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Age | Team | Lg | Pos | G | GS | Int | Yds | IntTD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | FRTD | Sk | Comb | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sfty | AV | Awards |
| 2016 | 21 | GNB | NFL | NT | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 22 | GNB | NFL | NT | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 55 | 32 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 23 | GNB | NFL | NT | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 55 | 36 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 8 | |
| 2019 | 24 | GNB | NFL | NT | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 62 | 31 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 12 | PB |
| 2020 | 25 | GNB | NFL | NT | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 42 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| 2021 | 26 | GNB | NFL | NT | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 48 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 9 | PB |
| 2022 | 27 | GNB | NFL | NT | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 53 | 27 | 26 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 8 | |
| 2023 | 28 | GNB | NFL | DL | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 44 | 22 | 22 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 10 | PB |
| 2024 | 29 | GNB | NFL | DL | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 37 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 | |
| 9 Yrs | 140 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 35.0 | 417 | 236 | 181 | 51 | 76 | 0 | 71 | |||||
| 17 Game Avg | 17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 51 | 29 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 9 | |||||
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