Packers have a need for team speed in 2023

The Green Bay Packers need to get faster this offseason. According to Brian Burke, who does sports analytics at ESPN, the Packers were the second-slowest team (only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were slower) in terms of overall team speed in the NFL in 2022.

Here is a look at the team-by-team rankings:

Here's a fun mini-project I did last year for an article–team speed. Updated for 2022. Tracking via NextGen Stats. pic.twitter.com/9ZS0hNxqEt

— Brian Burke (@bburkeESPN) February 15, 2023

To compile the data, Burke got some help from Next Gen Stats’ tracking system and took the mean of each player’s 2nd through 6th fastest max speeds on all non-special teams plays, noting that “fastest speed is often…