GREEN BAY — Nobody knows how good Christian Kirksey will be in the middle of the Green Bay Packers’ defense, but the new inside linebacker has already made one smart decision:
He’s going to wear No. 58 – not No. 50.
Not that there’s anything wrong with No. 50, per se. A.J. Hawk, the franchise’s all-time leader in tackles, wore it for nine seasons after being the team’s 2006 first-round draft pick, won a Super Bowl wearing it and recorded 1,118 tackles in it.
And Blake Martinez, a 2016 fourth-round pick, wore it the last four years before signing a three-year, $30 million deal with the New York Giants as a free agent.