The Green Bay Packers hope to use the 2025 offseason to elevate their squad from playoff challenger to Super Bowl contender. Making the playoffs in consecutive years is amazing, but there is more to be done.
This season, the squad will have an extra incentive to make a run in the playoffs.
Breaking: Packers’ Super Bowl champion passes away (Report)
Bob Long, a former Green Bay Packers wide receiver, died at his Brookfield home on Sunday. He was 83 years old.
Long was raised in Pittsburgh and attended Wichita State University, where he lettered three years in basketball. When his eligibility expired, he moved to football for the 1963 season. His performance was excellent enough that two professional teams drafted him.
Long spent the first four years of his seven-year professional career with the Green Bay Packers. He was selected in the fourth round (44th overall) of the 1964 NFL draft. He was selected in the tenth round of the AFL draft by the San Diego Chargers, but he chose to play with the Packers.
Long played for coach Vince Lombardi in Green Bay until 1967, then in Washington in 1969, where he started every game and caught 48 receptions for 533 yards and one touchdown, his greatest year. During his four seasons with the Packers, he started four games and caught 25 passes for 487 yards and four touchdowns. He also spent a year in Atlanta and a year with the Rams in Los Angeles.
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