Few people have been as strident in their criticism of the Green Bay Packers’ neglect of the wide receiver position in the latter stages of Aaron Rodgers’ career than I. After the trash surface of Heinz Field prematurely cut short Jordy Nelson’s career, the future Hall of Famer always had the All-Pro Davante Adams, but the rest of the group was often a rotating cast of characters that fluctuated between competent and literally one of the worst per-snap players in NFL history.
But the times, they are a changin’. The Packers have not had a group of skill position players this deep since the prime era of 2009-2014.