Welcome back to our series on the greatest Green Bay Packers players to wear every jersey number from No. 0 to No. 99.
No. 33 comes with a much stronger case than No. 32 did, thanks to four Packers Hall of Fame players who wore it at some point. But the pick here still doesn’t come from that group. Instead, the choice lands on a player whose production was far bigger than his reputation: Aaron Jones.
That’s not a knock on the other names. Clarke Hinkle and Mike Michalske each wore No. 33 during the Curly Lambeau era, though only for one season apiece - Hinkle in 1932 and Michalske in 1935.
Ray Nitschke also had the number briefly, wearing it as a rookie in 1958 before switching to his famous No. 66 for the final 14 years of his career. William Henderson was considered too, having spent much of the Brett Favre era as Green Bay’s fullback from 1995 to 2006, even if he wore No. 30 for his first three seasons.
Still, Jones is the one who stands out when the full body of work gets laid out.
A fifth-round pick out of UTEP in the 2017 NFL Draft, Jones arrived in Green Bay as the 182nd overall selection. He began his rookie year third on the depth chart behind Ty Montgomery and Jamaal Williams, but injuries opened the door and he made the most of it, finishing with 448 rushing yards and a team-high four rushing touchdowns in 12 games.
The numbers climbed from there. In his second season, Jones ran for 728 yards and eight touchdowns while adding 206 receiving yards and another score on 26 catches. Then came the leap that changed the conversation.
In 2019, he started all 16 regular-season games and delivered 1,084 rushing yards with a league-leading 16 rushing touchdowns, the second-most in a single season by any Packers player behind only Jim Taylor’s 19 in 1962. He also added 474 receiving yards and three more touchdowns on 49 catches.
Even without a Pro Bowl nod that year, Jones earned one in 2020 after producing 1,459 total yards from scrimmage - 1,104 on the ground and 355 through the air - along with 11 total touchdowns, including nine rushing and two receiving. He missed the Pro Bowl again in 2022 despite a career-high 1,121 rushing yards and a ninth-place NFL finish with 1,516 total yards from scrimmage.
By the time Green Bay released him after the 2023 season, after he refused to take a pay cut, Jones had built a résumé that went well beyond what many fans probably realize. He then signed with the rival Minnesota Vikings and set a new career high with 1,138 rushing yards in 2024.
Across seven seasons with the Packers, Jones piled up 5,940 rushing yards, which ranks third in franchise history, and 45 rushing touchdowns, good for fourth. His 2,076 receiving yards pushed him to 8,016 total yards from scrimmage, eighth in team history, and his 18 receiving touchdowns gave him 63 total touchdowns overall, seventh in franchise annals.
His postseason work only strengthens the case. Jones rushed for 511 yards in the playoffs, fifth-most by a Packers player, and scored seven rushing touchdowns, the most in franchise history.
Three of those came in the Wild Card Round win over the Dallas Cowboys after the 2023 regular season, tying a team record. That stretch also included 118 rushing yards in that game, 108 the next week in a Divisional Round loss to the San Francisco 49ers, and 127, 120 and 111 yards in the final three games of the regular season.
That made Jones the first Packers player ever to post at least 100 rushing yards in five straight games.
For a player who often seemed to be judged more by perception than production, the numbers tell the story. No. 33 belongs to Aaron Jones.
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