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Most Underrated Offseason Move By Packers Could Lift Perennially Inept Unit

Green Bay Packers On SI·Bill Huber·19 days ago
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The Green Bay Packers definitely will be new on special teams. But will they be improved? In a sweeping makeover of the team’s chronically underperforming special teams, the Packers parted ways with Rich Bisaccia, hired Cam Achord, drafted Trey Smack and released Brandon McManus. Sort of lost in the shuffle of the team’s major moves at coordinator and kicker, general manager Brian Gutekunst signed receiver Skyy Moore in free agency. Green Bay’s return game was feeble, at best, last season. Rookie Savion Williams was a nonfactor as the kickoff returner and veteran Romeo Doubs returned punts only because he could reliably field them. Moore will be an instant upgrade, which is what makes him such an underrated addition even though he caught only five passes the last two seasons. Traded by Kansas City to San Francisco toward the end of training camp last year, he averaged 11.6 yards per punt return – that’s more than a first down’s worth of field position – and 27.5 yards per kickoff return.…

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