DETROIT – Green Bay Packers safety Xavier McKinney had the perfect word in mind to describe the officiating in Sunday’s 20-17 loss to the Detroit Lions.
The All-Pro was obviously not happy without how the Packers game against the Lions was officiated. The Green Bay Packers left Detroit with a 20-17 loss to the Lions, and it’s hard to separate the result of the game from the officiating.
During the second half of Sunday night football, color commentator Chris Collinsworth asked play-by-play man Mike Tirico an illuminating question: “If
George Pickens has a major showdown with Xavier McKinney in Week 6 when the Dallas Cowboys battle the Green Bay Packers. The last time the Dallas Cowboys clashed with Green Bay, George Pickens caught eight passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns in a 40-40 tie last September.
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Micah Parsons will have to watch from the sidelines as the Green Bay Packers begin their 2026 regular season Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.
A few trades have rearranged the NFL's backup quarterback ranks, but the dust has mostly settled. From a mix of recent first-round disappointments, aging vets, and young project types, here is how the league's QB2 ranks look for the 2026 season.
Safety Xavier McKinney is unquestionably amongst the very best at his position in the entire NFL. Xavier McKinney is one of the best safeties in football, and the rest of the NFL knows it.
Former Alabama football safety Xavier McKinney was named to the 2026 NFL Top 100 on Monday. McKinney has started 82 games across his six-year NFL career, with four seasons spent with the New York Giants, and most recently, two years spent with the Green Bay Packers.
New York Giants fans of course remember watching Saquon Barkley leave for the rival Philadelphia Eagles. But it's easy to forget Big Blue also parted ways with safety Xavier McKinney in the 2024 offseason.
The Packers largest concern for this upcoming season in my eyes centers around the cornerback position battle. I do believe at some point that Brandon Cisse and Benjamin St.
Packers face cap-driven decision on McKinney extension as All-Pro safety enters final stretch of his contract in Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers signed safety Xavier McKinney in free agency back in 2024, and two seasons later, the All-Pro defensive back has become one of the most important players on the roster.
Bills S C.J. Gardner-Johnson says he knew the Bears wouldn’t re-sign him, despite his performance in 11 games with them last season, in which he had three sacks and two interceptions.
NFL stars can't play forever, and retirement is coming sooner than later for some of the league's top players. These 25 players could call it quits following the 2026 season.
The Green Bay Packers have built one of the NFL’s youngest rosters over the last several seasons. That youth movement, with play from players like Xavier McKinney, helped the team reach the playoffs three straight years, but it also may have exposed one major weakness: experience.
Heading into the 2026 season, the Green Bay Packers have one of the NFL’s most underrated position groups on their roster. Between Xavier McKinney, Evan Williams, and Javon Bullard, the team hasn’t been this young and talented at a defensive position in years, and their impact on the Packers’ future success will be stark.
The Green Bay Packers are strong at safety. Xavier McKinney and Evan Williams are one of the NFL’s top tandems. The emergence of Williams allowed Javon Bullard to settle into the slot.
The Packers are among the teams which entered Thursday with work to do to become cap compliant. Green Bay has opted for a restructure as an easy way to free up 2026 space.
At this point, Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson will seemingly tell anybody who will listen that he isn't all that fond of the Green Bay Packers. Packers safety Xavier McKinney responded to Johnson's latest headline-grabbing comments amid what's become quite the interesting rivalry.
Xavier McKinney doesn’t seem to be as prominant in the headlines as he was a year ago when he was an interception machine. In fact by October of last year, McKinney had already registered those 5 straight games with an interception.
The Cincinnati Bengals are trying a different strategy. Rather than going with Jake Browning in the wake of Joe Burrow's turf toe injury, they decided to trade for a veteran quarterback in Joe Flacco.
The Green Bay Packers are not just off to a 2-0 start. They are off to a dominant, commanding 2-0 start to the 2025 season. The Packers defeated the 2024 NFC 1 seed and the 2024 NFC Runner-Up in their first two games.
The Green Bay Packers secured a decisive 27-13 victory over the Detroit Lions in Week 1, but the game wasn’t without a moment of controversy that has become all too common in the modern NFL.
Xavier McKinney experienced a breakout year with the Green Bay Packers in 2024. After four seasons with the New York Giants, the veteran safety saw a major uptick in production in his fifth NFL season.
Packers safety Xavier McKinney is dealing with a lingering calf injury and may miss the rest of training camp as a result, per ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. McKinney.
Green Bay Packers All-Pro safety Xavier McKinney is dealing with a calf injury that could take him off the field for the rest of training camp and the preseason.
First-team All-Pro Xavier McKinney of the Green Bay Packers was voted to On SI’s All-NFC North team but was not a unanimous first-team selection. On SI’s four NFC North beat writers voted for the top five safeties in the division, with No.
The Green Bay Packers will take a 90-player roster to the field for their first practice of training camp on July 23. In a Packers On SI tradition, we are ranking every player on the roster.
Green Bay Packers fans had plenty of reasons to celebrate this offseason, but one move stood out above the rest—signing safety Xavier McKinney. While comparisons to Packers legends Reggie White and Charles Woodson might feel ambitious (and perhaps premature), McKinney’s impact on the field thus far has been undeniably game-changing.
One of the best moves the Green Bay Packers made during the previous offseason was signing former New York Giants safety Xavier McKinney to a four-year, $67 million contract.
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