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Right guard is becoming a black hole position for the Packers

The Ravens with true WR1s. The Raiders with CBs. There are certain positions that teams simply can’t seem to get right. For the Packers, that’s been the right guard spot for almost a decade.

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Peter Bukowski
Aug 19, 2026
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The Green Bay Packers have a right guard problem. Perhaps more precisely, the Green Bay Packers still have a right guard problem. Or yet another: the Green Bay Packers have a right guard problem … again.

Around the NFL, plenty of teams face intractable position deficiencies. No matter how hard they try, the money they spend or draft resources they allocate, they can’t seem to fix the issue. Right now, the Packers have an issue at right guard. And that’s been true since T.J. Lang left the building.

For a year, Green Bay used stalwart Jahri Evans at the end of his career as a temporary salve. Since then, the wound has split open, festered, and become resistant to antibiotics.

It’s now a gaping wound, in danger of becoming a case worthy of The Pitt.

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