Green Bay Packers to rebound from early playoff exit?

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In the two season since the Green Bay Packers traded away quarterback Brett Favre his replacement, Aaron Rodgers, has proven himself capable of leading the team. After finishing a dismal 6-10 in 2008 the defensive staff got a makeover with the addition of new defensive coordinator Don Capers. With an attacking defensive philosophy in place the team rebounded well, but closed out the season with a disappointing loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Despite the loss of DE Aaron Kampman to the Jaguars, the Green Bay Packers have kept themselves busy in free agency by retaining their own players. They have re-signed offensive lineman Chad Clifton and Mark Tauscher, as well as have locked up S Nick Collins and NT Ryan Pickett. The Packers who are not typically big players in free agency have only signed P Chris Bryan and WR Charles Dillon.

2009 Team Record: 11-5
First Round Pick: 23rd Overall

Roster Analysis

2009 Active Roster Batting Average (NFL Average): 58.49% (44.69%)
2009 Draft Pick Retention: 87.5%*
Undrafted Players on 2009 Active Roster (NFL Average): 28.30% (27.89%)

2010 Free Agents

Unrestricted: 6
Restricted: 9
Notable: Ryan Pickett, DT (UFA); Aaron Kampman, OLB (UFA); Chad Clifton, OT (UFA)

Last Five First Rounds

2009 – B.J. Raji, DT, Boston College (9th Overall)
2009 – Clay Matthews, OLB, USA (26th Overall)
2008 – No pick, selection traded away to NY Jets
2007 – Justin Harrell, DT, Tennessee (16th Overall)
2006 – A.J. Hawk, OLB, Ohio State (5th Overall)
2005 – Aaron Rodgers, QB, California (24th Overall)

DNQBR

For the 2009 season, Aaron Rodgers had a Draft Nuggets quarterback rating of 22.2, good for 4th in our rankings.^

Notes & Observations

• Seven of the Green Bay Packers eight 2009 draft picks made the team’s active roster
• Four of the teams last five first round selections have been defensive
• The team traded away their 2008 first round selection to the New York Jets who used it to draft TE Dustin Keller

* we have not performed a complete analysis of teams’ 2009 draft selections versus their 2009 active rosters in order to calculate an NFL league average.

^ we will detail the breakdown of the DNQBR in a future post, however, the figure represents the approximate number of points per game that the team’s quarterback contributes. As a point of reference Saints QB Drew Brees lead the league with a DNQBR of 26.3, while Jets QB Mark Sanchez possessed the lowest at .7

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