Three days of Green Bay Packers training camp are in the books and cornerback Carrington Valentine has reinforced his status as the default CB3. It’s only a minute sample size, of course, and the team hasn’t even moved to padded sessions yet.
Derrick Barnes plays the SAM linebacker role in the Lions’ defense. Detroit OLB coach David Carrao explained that the position requires Barnes to have a lot of different responsibilities.
The Green Bay Packers surprisingly released cornerback Jaire Alexander last month, and while Alexander’s roster spot had been in question all offseason long, it came at a rather awkward time.
How many of the NFL players with at least 80 touchdown catches in their career can you name in five minutes?
When the Packers step back onto the field for training camp next month, the secondary is going to look much different than it did at the end of last season.
As the offseason carries on, it is time for the third edition of this summer’s positional battle breakdown. The Packers will have some depth questions to answer regarding their cornerback group but after the release of Pro Bowl CB Jaire Alexander on Monday, the uncertainty around the group has dwindled.
Earlier this week, the Green Bay Packers informed two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander that they were going to release him. This decision ended
The Green Bay Packers released Jaire Alexander this week. In free agency, they didn’t re-sign Eric Stokes. The time is now for Carrington Valentine. A seventh-round pick in 2023, a starting job essentially has been handed to Valentine.
Keisean Nixon talked himself up this offseason. He now has the chance to back that talk up because he just became the Green Bay Packers' de facto CB1.
As longtime starting cornerback Jaire Alexander‘s future with the team remains in question, the Packers have had to put together a depth chart under the assumption that he won’t be on it.
It's an incredibly tough road to the NFL draft for the select few college football players who make it there. That road gets steeper trying to find their way on the field, especially for later-round draft picks.
The Green Bay Packers are trying to recreate the Carrington Valentine magic. Two years after selecting him in the seventh round, general manager Brian Gutekunt is using another seventh-rounder to take a cornerback.
The Green Bay Packers have a variety of needs that they still need to address this offseason. One of these is the cornerback position, which is in the midst of a very clear overhaul.
The NFL is a competitive league where careers are often short. A player can go from All Pro to yesterday’s news in a hurry or do the reverse with one outstanding season.
Written on chalky candy heart: Stay as close to me as Carrington stays to wide receivers. There were only three Green Bay Packers corners to play over 300 coverage snaps last season, and the player with the best PFF Grade of those three, at a light green 71.4, was Carrington Valentine.
Dallas Goedert showed off his strength on Sunday with a heck of a stiff arm against the Green Bay Packers.
Jaire Alexander is not coming to the rescue for the Green Bay Packers. If the Packers are going to make a run in this year’s playoffs, it will be without Alexander, who had surgery to address a knee injury originally sustained on Oct.
Before the last two weeks of the season, Carrington Valentine had surpassed 50 snaps in just one game—Week 11 in Chicago. Keisean Nixon and Eric Stokes have taken most of the cornerback snaps this season.
Looking at the Packers’ options, Valentine is the clear choice The Green Bay Packers’ defense was far from perfect on Sunday when they snuck out with a win against the Chicago Bears by blocking a field goal when time expired.
Through seven weeks, the Packers have underutilized their young cornerback. Going into the summer, many expected second-year cornerback Carrington Valentine, who played well as an injury replacement starter, to push former first-round pick Eric Stokes for the outside cornerback job opposite of Jaire Alexander.
NFL training camps are heating up, and teams have plenty to figure out over the next month. Here are three decisions the Green Bay Packers must make before they kick off their regular season on Sept 6.
For Green Bay Packers cornerback Carrington Valentine, everything was a competition when growing up. The youngest of four siblings, with the three others also being athletes, the young Valentine learned that he would have to earn whatever he wanted.
Injuries have largely defined the veteran cornerback's NFL career thus far.
The Giants knocked off the Packers (6-7) 24-22 on "Monday Night Football" to extend their win streak to three games and improve to 5-8 on the season. Here are the biggest takeaways from the Giants' thrilling win.
Chiefs fans were furious over a missed pass interference call late in the team’s 27-19 loss to the Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Sunday night.
Most NFL teams don’t expect much from a seventh-round draft pick, especially in their rookie season. But Green Bay Packers rookie cornerback Carrington Valentine has defied the odds.
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