Play action plays like the ones compiled below used to be a staple of a productive Green Bay Packers offense. Unfortunately, that component of the offense has fallen on hard times in recent seasons.
According to Football Outsiders, the Packers ranked 16th in the league in the percentage of pass plays that began with a play-action fake to the running back in 2017. Granted, this statistic took snaps with both Aaron Rodgers and Brett Hundley into account and one quarterback was certainly more effective than the other. But as APC’s Paul Noonan pointed out in February, the Packers only averaged 5.