The Green Bay Packers’ headline names are easy to spot. Micah Parsons, Tucker Kraft and Jordan Love give the roster plenty of star power. But if Green Bay is going to turn that talent into a real run at the top in 2026, the difference may come from the players lower on the depth chart.
That’s where the pressure lands on a few rotational pieces who have to give this team real value. The Packers need more than splash plays from the front line; they need steady help from the backups and role players who fill out the 11-man puzzle every week.
Skyy Moore arrives as one of the most important of those pieces. Green Bay’s return game was a mess last season.
The Packers finished just outside the bottom ten in average kickoff return distance and were one of only three teams without a return of 40 yards or more. Punt returns were even worse.
Green Bay ranked last in that category at 5.6 yards per return.
Moore gives them something they badly lacked. He averaged 11.64 yards per punt return last season and also brought back a kickoff 98 yards for the San Francisco 49ers.
He can help on offense too, where he looks like a veteran depth option behind Jayden Reed and Matthew Golden. His one-on-one work in practice on Tuesday backed that up.
He’s not walking into Green Bay as a featured receiver, but his special teams value alone makes him a useful piece.
MarShawn Lloyd is another player the Packers need to get something from in 2026, and the question with him is simpler: can he finally stay healthy? The former third-round pick out of USC has barely been on the field through his first two NFL seasons, with just one game played. In that appearance, he carried the ball six times for 15 yards.
His first two years have been derailed by hamstring issues, an ankle injury that sent him to injured reserve as a rookie, and even an emergency appendectomy right when he was activated off IR that same season. But Lloyd showed up to training camp looking healthy, and the burst and speed that made him a Day 2 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft were visible again. That kind of quickness fits a change-of-pace back, and if he can remain available, Green Bay can find ways to use it.
The edge group has its own opening early in the season. Micah Parsons is not expected back until at least Week 6, which forces the Packers to ask more from the rest of their pass rush. That puts the spotlight on Lukas Van Ness, Dani Dennis-Sutton and Barryn Sorrell.
Sorrell, a fourth-round pick from Texas last year, played in 14 games and logged 206 defensive snaps as a rookie. The numbers were modest: seven pressures, seven defensive stops and 1.5 sacks.
Still, the Packers have reason to keep watching. At 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds, he has the build to hold up as a three-down EDGE, and his flashes last season hinted at more than the stat line showed.
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