GREEN BAY, Wis. – Last year, the youth-filled Green Bay Packers made playoff history.
What can the still-young Packers do for an encore?
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this year’s Packers are the second-youngest team (25.72) by weighted age to make the playoffs over the last 45 seasons. The youngest? Last year’s Packers (25.58).
That team, which was the fourth-youngest to make the playoffs since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, became the youngest during that span to win a playoff game.
According to ESPN’s Bill Barnwell, who also crunched the numbers, the Packers finished the season as the youngest team in the NFL.