The Green Bay Packers’ best player to wear No. 2 is the easiest call in the bunch: Mason Crosby.
There are six players in the mix for the number, but once you get past the list, the debate pretty much ends there. Pahl Davis, Buck Gavin, Charlie Mathys and Walt McGaw all wore No. 2 back in the 1920s, names that even plenty of longtime Packers fans probably wouldn’t have at the ready. Malik Willis also belongs in the conversation after a strong two-year run in Green Bay, but Crosby’s résumé towers over everyone else.
Willis went 2-1 in his three starts, completed 78.7 percent of his passes for 972 yards, threw six touchdowns without an interception in 11 appearances, and added 261 rushing yards with three more scores. That’s a solid run. Crosby, though, spent 16 years in Green Bay and became the franchise’s all-time leading scorer.
The Packers took Crosby in the sixth round of the 2007 draft with the 193rd overall pick after he earned First-Team All-American honors twice and was a three-time First-Team All-Big 12 selection at Colorado. He won the kicking job as a rookie over Dave Rayner and made his presence felt right away.
His first regular-season game was a snapshot of what was to come. Crosby hit all three of his field goals and his lone extra point, drilling kicks from 53, 37 and 42 yards.
The last one came with two seconds left and lifted Green Bay to a 16-13 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. For that performance, he was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
Even more striking, Crosby became the first player in league history to make both a field goal of at least 50 yards and a game-winning field goal with under a minute left in his NFL debut. He also led the NFL in scoring that season with 141 points.
From there, the points piled up. Crosby finished his Packers regular-season career with 1,918 points, including 1,185 on field goals and 733 on extra points, across 258 games. Ryan Longwell is second on the Packers’ all-time scoring list with 1,054, which shows just how far Crosby pulled away.
His NFL career didn’t end in Green Bay, either. He added 21 points for the New York Giants in 2023, bringing his regular-season total to 1,939, which ranks 11th in NFL history.
Crosby also delivered in the postseason. In 23 playoff games for the Packers, he scored 163 more points, making 31 of 35 field goals and all 70 extra-point tries. That pushed his total in Green Bay to 2,081 points.
For No. 2, that’s as clean a choice as it gets.
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