The Green Bay Packers are entering the third season of the new, younger, era they established. Green Bay has made the playoffs in back to back seasons with Jordan Love under center, a feat that needs to be recognized.
However, if the team wants to take the next step to “Super Bowl Contender” they’ll need to make a few adjustments.
One of those adjustments may have already happened.
“It’s Now Or Never” Packers Make Last Ditch Effort To Save Career (Report)
As Andrew Kulha of Clutch Points observes, the addition of DeMarcus Covington will represent a significant shift:
Is Lukas Van Ness going to be a draft bust, or will he finally find the potential the Packers saw in him when they selected him with the No. 13 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.
Van Ness is 6-foot-5, 272 pounds and he looks like he should be a superstar. In fact, he was nicknamed “Hercules” at Iowa.
The problem for Van Ness so far is that the only thing he seems good at doing is getting in the way. He notched four sacks in his rookie season in 2023 and flashed some potential, but he was given a bigger role in 2024 and expected a lot out of him. He finished the season with three sacks and was on a milk carton for many games.
It’s now or never for Van Ness, so let’s see what Covington can do with him.
| 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 |
| 2023 | 22 | GNB | NFL | LB | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 32 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 23 | GNB | NFL | DL | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 33 | 22 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2 Yrs | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 65 | 46 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| 17 Game Avg | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 32 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | |||||
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