The Green Bay Packers will go as far as where Aaron Rodgers takes them. That's the most acceptable truth about the Packers over the past several years. It still remains as a proverbial chant among Packers fans, but at least one area of Green Bay's game is starting to transform the team into a scarier threat for the rest of the NFL: their defense. To be precise, we are talking about the Packers' ability to contain opposing wide receivers.

Here's Field Yates of ESPN with a perfect set of data that underscores just how immense the Packers' pass defense has been when opponents try to look for their wideouts.

Opposing quarterbacks when targeting wide receivers against the Packers this season:

Completion %: 56% (last in NFL)
Yards/attempt: 6.7 (31st in NFL)
Interceptions: 10 (t-2nd most in NFL)

By the way, All Pro CB Jaire Alexander has been out since Week 4.

This is a very timely reminder of how exceptional the Packers' defense has been this season and how big of a role it's played in the team's success, thus far, as Green Bay had just forced Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to lay a giant egg in Week 10. The Packers scored a 17-0 win over the Seahawks, despite Rodgers putting up a subpar performance. Rodgers went 23-of-37 for 292 passing yards with zero touchdowns and an interception for a 75.5 passer rating.

The Packers survived all that, as their defense made life incredibly hard for Wilson to connect to his top receivers in DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. Metcalf finished with just three catches for 26 receiving yards on eight targets. Lockett, meanwhile, was worse. He went 2-of-8 for 23 receiving yards. With both Metcalf and Lockett well-defended, Wilson was forced to rely more on tight end Gerald Everett, who came away with 63 receiving yards on eight catches and eight targets.

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It's fair to say that the Packers preferred seeing Everett excite his fantasy football PPR owners over the potential of Metcalf and Lockett going off at the same time.

What the Packers' defense did to the Seahawks is a template Green Bay is looking to duplicate, especially in the coming weeks, as it has the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams lined up on their schedule in the next two Sundays.