Since the start of last season, Mike Daniels has been playing at a level that no Packers defensive interior lineman has played at since the Vince Lombardi era. Accordingly, at this point, he would seem to stand a chance of being selected for this season’s Pro Bowl and maybe even become the first Packers’ defensive tackle to be named to a first-team all-pro since Henry Jordan in 1966.
Clearly, defensive tackle has not been one of the Packers’ stronger positions for the last half-century. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the top candidates for a list of the Packers’ five best interior defensive linemen mostly played during pro football’s Iron Man era, or at least before 1950 when the NFL restored free substitution for good and paved the way for two-platoon football and today’s ultra specialization.