Over the next two weeks, Acme Packing Company takes a look at each position group on the Green Bay Packers and provides grades and insight on how they performed in the 2017 season. Today, we examine the outside linebackers.
While not the sole source of the Green Bay Packers’ pass rush, the team’s outside linebackers played a significant role in determining whether the defense could generate adequate pressure on the quarterback. As became obvious over the course of the 2017 season, that proved to be an issue, one which ultimately cost defensive coordinator Dom Capers his job.