For good teams to win close games, they often need to rely on timely contributions from even the most unlikely of players. At 5-1 and in first place in the NFC North, the evidence is beginning to mount that your 2019 Packers are, in fact, a good team, and they got some extremely timely contributions from Allen Lazard down the stretch in their 23-22 win over the Lions.
But Lazard is hardly an unlikely contributor. It’s just taken him a little while to reach this point.
Despite leaving Iowa State as the program’s all-time leading receiver, Lazard went undrafted in 2018, despite some interest from the Packers.