Green Bay Packers announce 7 season-long captains for first time since 2022

The end of the 2022 NFL season marked many changes for the Packers. Not only did they decided to move on from future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers in favor Jordan Love, but they also replaced many long-time veteran players with young rookies in the 2023 NFL Draft.

As a result, Green Bay went from being one of the oldest teams in the league to the absolute youngest. And for this reason, among other contributing factors, head coach Matt LaFleur decided that the team would not vote on season-long captains. Instead, he named different captains every week, and it had been that way for the last two seasons.

But on Sunday, many fans noticed several players wearing captain C’s on their jerseys, indicating that LaFleur had let the players vote on their own season-long captains once again.

On Tuesday, he confirmed that it was true and clarified which players had been given that honor:

As one can see from the post above, the seven Packers players who will serve as the team captains are Love, Josh Jacobs, Tucker Kraft, Quay Walker, Rashan Gary, Isaiah McDuffie, and Xavier McKinney.

Of allowing the players to vote for their own captains, LaFleur said, “Those guys wanted to vote for it. Those guys are worthy of that recognition. They’ve all done the little things and hold the high standard. I told them, eyes are always gonna be on them—there’s no ‘off’ switch, both in the building and out of it. You’ve got to set the standards and uphold the standard from everybody else.”