Could Fewer Touches Lead to More Production for Packers WR Randall Cobb?
Packers WR Randall Cobb.
Breakout WR/HB/KR/PR Randall Cobb touched the ball 159 times and amassed a Packers franchise record 2,342 all-purpose yards in 2012.
It was quite the season for the second-year talent out of Kentucky, and very necessary. Greg Jennings and Jordy Nelson all missed significant time with injuries. Cobb, along with James Jones, stepped up to fill the void left...
Five potential breakout players for 2013: Who will it be?
Packers CB Davon House
Every NFL season begins with a blank slate and ends with a long list of newly-minted star players.
Last season, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick may be the prime example of a player that took the next step and pushed his team to the next level, as San Francisco won the NFC and advanced to Super Bowl XLVII.
Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas went from being...
May Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 50 Wide Receivers
The NFL draft is behind us and while wide receivers are not known to make huge impacts as rookies, two of them did break the top 50 this month. A couple of trades also changed our landscape a bit.Monthly rankings will be available each month til the beginning of August when we’ll shift gears to bi-weekly rankings. If you have a qualm with any of these rankings, make sure to slap...
Break Out Review: James Jones
Over the course of the off-season we’ll be looking back at some of the major players who ‘broke out’ or outperformed their ADP by a drastic amount in the hopes that we can get a feel for what their 2013 fantasy football season holds and whether the break out is here to stay. Today the review subject is James Jones.
Welp, it finally happened. After years of ‘James Jones...
Packers 2013 NFL Draft: Day 1 Grade and Analysis
Packers DE Datone Jones
The first 32 picks of the 2013 NFL Draft are in the books, and the Packers struck gold (and baby blue?) by grabbing UCLA defensive end Datone Jones at No. 26.
Jones was a popular pick among mock drafts, and he was my selection for the Packers in my final mock draft released Thursday. At 6’4″ 283 pounds, Jones has the frame to add another 10-15 pounds and...
Packers will continue to draft and develop
We have seen how the Green Bay Packers have been built during the Ted Thompson era. Building through the draft with very little free agent signings each season. If a player goes to free agency, it is very unlikely that the Packers will pay to have that player back. This has its ups and downs, and there are many examples of the good and the bad with his philosophy.
Some examples...
The Results are In: Presenting the Packers’ Final Four and Top Twenty
After a two days of voting, the fans have had their say and the Packers’ Final Four players have been chosen. As a reminder this was a vote for the Packers’ BEST pure football players, not those with the most value to them.
I’ve also listed the top 20 vote getters along the way, in order – so these represent the players our readers consider the best 20 on the Packers roster...
Picking the Packers’ Final Four Players – Vote Now
Last weekend, we picked our “Packers Players Elite Eight.” As March Madness continues, we will parallel the NCAA Basketball tournament and have you vote for the four BEST Packers on the roster; the “Packers Players Final Four.”
The players you selected fore the Elite Eight (in no particular order) were:
James Jones
Aaron Rodgers
Casey Hayward
Randall Cobb
B.J. Raji
Jordy...
Searching for Sleepers: Packers 2013 NFL Draft
Ted Thompson on the Prowl
Since Ted Thompson has had final say in who the Packers draft, there have been a number of, WHO?, picks. Nick Collins, Jerron McMIllian, James Jones, Josh Sitton come to mind looking back at different drafts and remembering the comments by many of the sideline GM’s. You could have got this or that player way later and TT should have taken this or that...
James Jones Fantasy Forecast 2013
Ask anyone on the street who led the NFL in touchdowns catches last season. Very few will know that It was the NFL’s embodiment Rodney Dangerfield, James Jones of the Green Bay Packers. He gets no respect, even after scoring nine more TDs than Calvin Johnson in 2012. That is likely to change in 2013.
Jones scored 14 times and is somehow still under the radar. In most mock draft...
Fantasy Football Player Profile – James Jones, WR
James Jones, WR, Green Bay Packers
Player Profile
Height/Weight: 6-1/208
Birthdate: 3/31/1984
School: San Jose State
FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYSIS
2012 was a weird year for Green Bay Packers receivers. Not one of them reached 1000 yards, which, to be fair, was partly due to injuries to top options Jordy Nelson and Greg Jennings. What also was weird is that James Jones scored the most...
A Look At Ted Thompson’s Gambling Habit
Thompson appears to have made another tough but good decision in letting Greg Jennings test the free agent market
After the 2010 season, Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones was not offered a new contract and became a free agent. Having just come off of a Super Bowl win, it was widely speculated that Jones would see some decent demand throughout the league. Jones was looking...
Green Bay Packers: Team Needs in the 2013 NFL Draft
As we continue the Team Needs series for the 2013 NFL Draft, we proceed to the team with the twenty-sixth overall pick; the Green Bay Packers. It was just another double digit victory season and another division crown for the Pack. Unfortunately, the beating they took in the second round of the postseason is all that anyone will remember of their 2012 campaign.
Aaron Rodgers once...
Jones Is a Good No. 2 Receiver
Veteran James Jones led all wide receivers in touchdown catches last season
During a Tuesday morning appearance on the NFL Network’s NFL AM, James Jones said he was prepared to take on the role as Green Bay’s No. 1 wide receiver. ”I’m ready,” opined the six-year vet from San Jose State. “I work very hard every year. I’m ready to take in that role if we don’t get...
Packers Jones wants less protection for WRs?
The NFL's increasing emphasis on eliminating helmet-to-helmet hits draws frequent criticism from defenders who are penalized and fined for such tackles, but it's rare -- maybe unheard of -- for a wide receiver to share that sentiment.
Green Bay Packers wideout James Jones said in an NFL Network studio appearance this week that if he could be commissioner for a day the first...
Packers WR James Jones Doesn’t Need the NFL To Protect His Head
Wise stance or not, Packers wide receiver James Jones offered an unusually fresh and reasonable perspective on player safety this week.
When asked on NFL Network what he would do if commish for a day, Jones said he has no problem getting hit in the head and would allow more helmet-to-helmet hits.
“I think the helmet-to-helmet rule, where defenders have to hit at a certain...
James Jones Wants NFL to Eliminate Rule That Prohibits Head-to-Head Hits on Receivers
It’s common to hear defensive players gripe about the NFL’s increasingly stricter restrictions on legal hits, but you don’t often hear those complaints coming from the offensive side of the ball.
Packers wide receiver James Jones broke that trend Wednesday when said during an interview with NFL Total Access that if he were commissioner, he would do away with the rule that prohibits...
Packers’ James Jones hates the helmet-to-helmet rule that protects receivers
Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones was on the NFL Network and admitted that he hates the helmet-to-helmet rule that the league instituted to protect defenseless receivers.
“I think the helmet-to-helmet rule, where defenders have to hit at a certain target, I think they need to eliminate that,” Jones said, per ProFootballTalk.com. “I’d rather get hit in the helmet...
James Jones: Packers Can Have Three 1,000-Yard Receivers
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Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones has gone from a barely-used afterthought to now a key part in the Green Bay Packers’ lethal passing attack.
With the retirement of Donald Driver, and impending departure of Greg Jennings, Jones now sees himself as an important figure along side Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb.
Jones was on NFL Network on Tuesday and talked...
Jones says he can be Rodgers No. 1 target
With Greg Jennings likely headed out of Green Bay as a free agent, at least three other Packers wide receivers will be asked this question a lot in the coming weeks and months: Are you a No. 1 wideout?
James Jones, who along with Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb could lay a claim to that spot in one of the NFL's most prolific passing offenses, took his turn answering the question...
Packers Annual Checkup: WR James Jones
Today is the 25th day of FOX Sports Wisconsin Packers writer Paul Imig's offseason evaluations of every player on Green Bay's roster.Click here for all of Paul's previous evaluationsand come back every day through mid-March for Paul's in-depth film and statistical analysis. Coming up soon:
Today:WR James Jones
Friday, Feb. 22:FB John Kuhn
Saturday, Feb. 23:G T.J...
James Jones Says Packers Can Have Three 1,000 Yard Wide Receivers
Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones has gone from sometimes unused after thought, to a key cog in the Packers lethal passing game.
With the retirement of Donald Driver, and impending departure of Greg Jennings, Jones now see’s himself as an important fixture along side Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb.
Jones was on NFL Network yesterday and talked about the future of the...
James Jones Says Packers Can Have Three 1,000 Yard WRs
Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones has gone from sometimes unused after thought, to a key cog in the Packers lethal passing game.
With the retirement of Donald Driver, and impending departure of Greg Jennings, Jones now see’s himself as an important fixture along side Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb.
Jones was on NFL Network yesterday and talked about the future of the Packers...
Packers James Jones: 2012 Player Evaluation and Report Card
1) Introduction: Coming into the season, James Jones was perhaps the least talked-about wide receiver on the roster. Donald Driver, 37, returned for a 14th season, Randall Cobb was on the verge of becoming one of the team’s top playmakers, Jordy Nelson was coming off the best season of his career, and Greg Jennings was still the clear-cut No. 1 receiver. But injuries caused Jennings...
Packers should have traded Greg Jennings
The Green Bay Packers never stood a chance in signing free agent Greg Jennings and already told the seven-year veteran that they wouldn’t be among the teams pursuing him. Jordy Nelson, James Jones and the emergence of Randall Cobb have the Packers set for 2013, but why didn’t they at least shop Greg Jennings before the NFL trade deadline or at the start of the season?
A possible...
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