GREEN BAY, Wis. – Quay Walker could change the way the Green Bay Packers play defense.
Last season, Joe Barry’s first as coordinator, the Packers lined up with six-plus defensive backs on 24.0 percent of their defensive snaps. That was the sixth-highest rate in the NFL, according to Sports Info Solutions. While that was down sharply from the Mike Pettine era – No. 1-ranked dime rates of 49.9 percent in 2019 and 48.8 percent in 2020 – that’s still a lot of light-in-the-box snaps.
Not to mention a lot of light-on-the-scale snaps.
The addition of Walker, the first of Green Bay’s first-round draft picks, could mean two things for the defense so long as he can use his uncommon combination of height (6-foot-3 3/4) and athletic ability (4.