The Packers are heading into 2026 with a win total that says plenty about how the market sees them: 9.5, according to FanDuel.
That number puts Green Bay in familiar territory - good enough to expect a real run, but not so high that anything short of a big season would feel shocking. The projection attached to it is even more pointed: “A 10-11 win season is the most likely outcome. The -130 over 9.5 wins means the market already prices in a strong year, but Green Bay contending for an NFC title remains a real and underrated scenario.”
There’s plenty feeding that optimism, even with some obvious turnover. The Packers lost Romeo Doubs to the New England Patriots in free agency and traded Dontayvion Wicks to the Philadelphia Eagles this offseason. That leaves Jordan Love with a different-looking group to work with at wideout, including Tucker Kraft, Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden, Savion Williams, Skyy Moore, Jakobie Keeney-James, Isaiah Neyor and Will Sheppard.
Love is also carrying the weight that comes with his four-year, $220 million contract, which he signed in 2024. The expectation now is simple: he has to look like a superstar.
Last season, the 27-year-old threw for 3,381 yards and 23 touchdowns while completing 66.3% of his passes. Through his career, he has 11,535 passing yards and 83 touchdown passes, and he’s 27-20-1 as a starter.
Green Bay’s 2026 opener against the Minnesota Vikings will be an early measuring stick, especially with Micah Parsons set to miss the start of the campaign while recovering from the ACL tear he suffered last season against the Denver Broncos in Week 15. The Packers didn’t win again after that injury and then fell to the Chicago Bears in the wild-card round of the 2026 playoffs.
Love recently said the biggest area he’s working on is his footwork, and he explained exactly what he means.
"My biggest thing that I've noticed since I got back is just my feet in the pocket, trying to be as smooth and consistent as possible," Love said. "When I go through my reads, get into my hitches and not getting antsy, not getting to that point where you're trying to move through the pocket too fast.
Just staying calm, staying relaxed, move through my reads. If I've gotta move around in the pocket, keeping those movements pretty tight and not kind of running into where guys might be peeling off and able to hit you."
For Green Bay, that’s the next step: cleaner movement, steadier decision-making, and a quarterback who starts looking like the player the contract says he should be.
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