The Green Bay Packers lost their last five games in 2025. Five straight, including a playoff exit at the hands of the Chicago Bears, a team they’d owned for years. And the offseason hasn’t exactly been a healing balm.
The single biggest problem? Micah Parsons won’t be on the field for a while. The star edge rusher tore his ACL late last season, and the team has not confirmed a return timeline. The most optimistic guess puts him back in uniform around Week 6 or 7. More realistic estimates suggest Week 10 or 11. That’s a massive chunk of the season without the guy who makes the entire defensive front work.
The numbers tell a brutal story. When Parsons was healthy, the Packers went 9-3-1. After he went down? Four straight regular-season losses followed by that Wild Card collapse against Chicago. They had a 27-16 lead with less than seven minutes left and watched it evaporate into a 31-27 defeat. That loss has hung over the building all winter.
And it’s not just Parsons. The Packers lost wideout Romeo Doubs, left tackle Rasheed Walker, linebacker Quay Walker, cornerback Nate Hobbs, and offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins to free agency. None of those departures alone is catastrophic. But stacking them on top of the Parsons situation starts to look like a problem.
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