Packers offense has low-hanging fruit to pick besides fewer dropped passes

The Packers dropped a lot of passes in 2024, but penalties in the running game had a significant negative effect as well.

The Green Bay Packers spent the offseason looking for ways to improve their offense. While the unit hardly lacked firepower in 2024, settling for simply "good" would not have sufficed for the team's leadership, especially with low-hanging fruit to pick.

At this point in the process, everyone and their mother has heard about the extremely high number of passes that the Packers dropped in 2024. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Jordan Love threw 23 passes that his receivers dropped, the fifth most among all quarterbacks last season. That total looks even worse when considering that Love missed two games as well as significant portions of two others.

Those mistakes necessarily impacted the quality of Green Bay's aerial attack even though the offense finished third in passing by DVOA. Explosive plays helped keep the entire unit afloat, but the consistency suffered, leading to Jordan Love ranking just 12th in passing success rate.

However, the down-to-down shortcomings of the passing game represent just one of the offensive concerns the Packers faced last season, and perhaps not even the biggest. For all the productivity lost to dropped passes, issues on the ground arguably cost them even more.