If the Green Bay Packers are going to fulfill their goal of winning Super Bowl LII, they’ll need some unsung heroes to come through for them.
When the Packers ended a 29-year drought in 1996 and won Super Bowl XXXI, they had only five players selected for the Pro Bowl and only two Associated Press All-Pros, Brett Favre and LeRoy Butler.
But they had a lineup full of steady, reliable, under-the-radar players. After eliminating the Pro Bowl picks, anyone who received all-pro recognition even if it was second-team, offensive skill players who were in the spotlight by the nature of their positions, and fan favorite Gilbert Brown, whose notoriety exceeded the norm for a nose tackle, here’s my list of the five most unsung.