Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 10)
By JERRY TAPP
In the NFL, there are game stats that are celebrated each week. For runners and receivers, it’s a 100-yard game; for quarterbacks, it’s passing for 300 or more yards.
In the history of the Green Bay Packers, there have been certain players who just seem to have great games against the Pack. Using the 100-yard games for runners and receivers and the 300-yard passing game for QBs, here’s a look at the opponents who have had the most games reaching these yardsticks of statistical excellence.
Opposing runners with the most 100-yard games vs. Packers
13: Walter Payton
10: Barry Sanders
8: Adrian Peterson
7: Joe Perry
5: J.D. Smith
Opposing receivers with the most 100-yard games vs. Packers
7: Randy Moss
6: Elroy Hirsch, Calvin Johnson
5: Herman Moore
3: (Nine players tied with 3 games)
Opposing QBs with the most 300-yard passing games vs. Packers
6: Drew Brees
4: Matthew Stafford
3: Joe Montana, Philip Rivers, Vinny Testaverde
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.