Packers' Faulty Defensive Line May Provide Reason for Concern

A defensive line whose strength once hinged on the performances of Ryan Pickett and B.J. Raji—both out of the league in 2017—has been in a state of flux over the last couple of seasons with no signs of stagnancy in sight.

The Packers enter 2017 with a defensive front that has no issue getting to the quarterback. They were ranked 11th a season ago in sack percentage with a sack on 5.99 percent of their snaps, finishing sixth in the league in sack totals. It's a few notches down from their 7.54 percentage in 2015. The only problem is consistently doing so.

They had no problem recording at least one sack in the 18 consecutive games leading up to the NFC Championship. Where it mattered most, the…