In 2021, the Green Bay Packers’ special teams ranked last in every major assessment of the quality of that phase of football. Whether you subscribe to DVOA, Rick Gosselin’s annual rankings, or some other metric, the Packers’ units were unquestionably one of the worst in football, if not the absolute worst.
Failures on these units also directly led to multiple losses, including in a regular season game in Kansas City and — most agonizing of all — in the Divisional Playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers. Now, the man in charge of the special teams for 2021 is headed out.