The Packers were great at producing explosive plays in 2024

There were plenty of problems with the Packers’ offense in 2024, but producing explosive plays wasn’t one of them.

I’ve been tracking the Packers’ performance in producing explosive plays for some time now, and I’m happy to report the 2024 version of the squad produced them at a rate comparable to some of the very best offenses in recent Packers history.

Let’s back up for a second, though, and define our terms. What’s an explosive play? For our purposes, I’m counting explosive plays as any run of 12 yards or more or any completion of 16 yards or more. Why those seemingly arbitrary numbers? For one, they’re about as good as any — I’ve seen people define explosive plays as gains of as little as…