StaTuesday: Packers single-recreation playoff files

Closing yr we took a ogle on the save most up-to-date Inexperienced Bay avid gamers are on the Packers’ and NFL’s all-time playoff statistical lists.

(Aaron Rodgers needs 285 passing yards to circulate Brett Favre for most in Inexperienced Bay postseason historical previous.)

With the Packers self-discipline to seem in their first 2020 playoff recreation Saturday in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams, we belief we’d eradicate a ogle on the all-time easiest single-recreation performances in Inexperienced Bay playoff annals. Towards a sturdy Rams defense, these forms of would possibly per chance well be tricky to reach.

Heading into Saturday’s divisional playoff matchup, Inexperienced Bay has appeared in 55 playoff video games (since 1940).

The Inexperienced Bay epic for most touchdowns scored in a recreation is three, and it has been performed thrice. Sterling Sharpe used to be the first to realize it, at Detroit on Jan. 8, 1994. Over a decade later, Ryan Grant had the trifecta vs. Seattle on Jan. 12, 2008. Randall Cobb used to be the closing to realize the feat virtually 10 years later in opposition to the Unique York Giants on Jan. 8, 2017.

In phrases of passing touchdowns, the Packers playoff bar is self-discipline at four. Bart Starr did it back on Jan. 1, 1967 in opposition to Dallas (helping Inexperienced Bay create Large Bowl I). Lynn Dickey had four in opposition to the St. Louis Cardinals on Jan. 8, 1983. Rodgers has the opposite two, Jan. 10, 2010 at Arizona and Jan. 8, 2017 vs. the Giants.

Not surprisingly, Rodgers holds several Packers playoff passing files: 31 completions (twice, Jan. 15, 2011 at Atlanta and closing season in opposition to San Francisco), 46 circulate attempts (Jan. 15, 2012 vs. the Giants) and 423 passing yards (Jan. 10, 2010 at Arizona).

Rodgers has the end-four postseason passing yards in Packers historical previous. In all, there were 12 300-yard video games (half of trust device in opposition to Dallas!).

On the receiving discontinuance, there were 31 video games with a player collecting 100+ yards, at the side of closing yr’s epic-environment 160 by Davante Adams in opposition to Seattle.

There were 10 other video games the save a Packers receiver has 130+ yards in a playoff recreation.

The most receptions in a Inexperienced Bay playoff recreation is 9 – and it used to be first performed by a running back, Edgar Bennett on Jan. 16, 1994. The assorted twice had been in Large Bowls: Antonio Freeman vs. Unique England in Large Bowl XXXI and Jordy Nelson in opposition to Pittsburgh in Large Bowl XLV.

Bennett and Dorsey Levens, who’s the one real Packers running back with a 100+-yard receiving recreation in the postseason, every even trust rushed for over 100 yards in a playoff contest. Apparently, there were easiest 10 100-yard speeding performances by a Inexperienced Bay player (and none trust took place later than Jan. 12).

Levens owns three of the 10 whereas Ryan Grant is the one real to top 200. The closing to realize it used to be Eddie Lacy, six years previously.

Defensively, Henry Jordan has essentially the most sacks in a Packers playoff recreation – 3.5 vs. the Rams on Dec. 23, 1967. Willie Davis (Large Bowl II) and Reggie White (Large Bowl Large Bowl XXXI) had three.

Four avid gamers trust two interceptions in a recreation – and two took place in 2011. Eugene Robinson used to be the first two to find it, on Jan. 4, 1997 vs. San Francisco. Tramon Williams (Jan. 15 at Atlanta) and Sam Shields (Jan. 23 at Chicago) did it eight days apart in ’11. At closing, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix also had a pair of picks at Seattle on Jan. 18, 2015.

Antonio Freeman used to be the first to trust a punt return for a touchdown, doing it in opposition to Atlanta on Dec. 31, 1995. Desmond Howard owns the opposite particular groups touchdown returns: On a punt vs. San Francisco on Jan. 4, 1997 and the one real kick return TD in the franchise’s postseason historical previous, which helped get him MVP honors in Large Bowl XXXI.