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The Green Bay Packers went an impressive 13-3 in the 2019 regular season. That was one of the best records in football. It was also good enough to win them the NFC North and get a bye in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.
Green Bay then went on to beat the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round. However, they were then bounced from the playoffs in the NFC Championship Game by the San Francisco 49ers.
So, while the Packers are in a pretty good place, they still need to make some improvements if they want to get over that hump. If Green Bay wants to win a Super Bowl, they need to look to free agency.
Here are three positions of need the Packers should target in free agency.
Wide Receiver
Wide receiver is the most obvious group on this list. For years, anyone that watches football has been able to tell that Aaron Rodgers wasn't getting much help from his receivers.
Yes, Davante Adams is a legitimate superstar. After that things get pretty bleak, though.
The Packers need at least one more legitimate threat at the position. That's where free agency comes into play. All Green Bay has to do is find someone that is reliable. Someone that will actually make the defense respect them. That takes a ton of pressure off Adams and gives Rodgers another target he can actually trust.
Defensive Line
This is something I've said for years. And every year I will tell someone the Packers need to improve their defensive line. Every year it is met with a backlash too.
Let me just throw these numbers out to you though.
Six, 1.5, zero, zero and zero. Those are the sack totals of the Green Bay defensive line.
Yes, the defensive line does a lot more than get sacks. They pressure the quarterback, fill gaps and stop the run. However, this defensive line doesn't do all that much of that.
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Kenny Clark is really good. That's about it. No one else on the line is someone you'd call anything remotely close to irreplaceable. So why not replace them?
I'm not saying you have to get rid of anyone or anything like that. But just bring in a veteran presence that might actually put up a few more stats.
Quarterback
This one sounds weird because of Rodgers. He's one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. What if he gets hurt though?
Honestly, it's hard to believe Rodgers' health issues aren't overblown. He plays a heavy majority of the games almost every year; somehow he's considered injury prone by many though.
Still the point is, what if he gets hurt. The Packers have a decent enough team that they should be able to stay afloat in a season if Rodgers misses a few games.
Can they do that with Tim Boyle and Manny Wilkins as their backups though?
Just throwing this out there, Wilkins has yet to appear in an NFL game and has four career pass attempts for 15 yards. Oh, and both were undrafted. So, it's not like these are star prospects that the Packers are holding on to. If Rodgers gets hurt, there's no real reason to believe either of those two could get Green Bay some wins.
Signing a relatively cheap veteran backup quarterback makes all the sense in the world and needs to be done.
