After missing the NFL playoffs last season, the Green Bay Packers are looking to bounce back with a vengeance in 2018. Head coach Mike McCarthy and company will try to mix things up this time around with a different approach to the ground game.
McCarthy admits Green Bay will be going with team's three-best running backs getting a sizable workload next season. It'll be by committee in the backfield with Ty Montgomery, Jamaal Williams, and Aaron Jones, much like another NFC heavyweight in the New Orleans Saints, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.
“The fact of the matter is we're going to go running back by committee,” he said during an interview at the conclusion of the offseason program. “But if one of them would emerge as that full-time guy then you have to have that ability to … adjust to that. As far as planning and going into the season, that's why we're going about it that way. We feel like we've got three guys that have all done it, but they haven't done it over a long period of time, so I think it's just practical thinking from that position and realizing that it's a very demanding position.”
Last year, the Packers saw superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers go down with a broken collarbone right as the team was starting to hit their stride. The injury proved costly as Green Bay was understandably not the same team without the threat under center and therefore it also became difficult to establish the run game.
With Rodgers now healthy, it'll be interesting to see whether McCarthy's plan to go running back by committee pays off as the storied franchise attempts to get back into the title contender conversation.
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