In 2016, the greatest weakness of the Green Bay Packers’ defense was the depleted cornerback unit. The unit that started the season ranked as the seventh-best group of corners in the NFL truly fell apart, losing players to injury early and often as the campaign went along.
First, Sam Shields’ concussion took out the team’s number one corner and the position group’s veteran leader. In the succeeding weeks, promising second-year corners Damarious Randall and Quinten Rollins suffered groin injuries, and replacement Demetri Goodson suffered a gruesome knee injury that landed him on injured reserve.