The Green Bay Packers have three players on their rosters who are 30-plus years old. Where does that rank among the rest of the NFL teams?
GREEN BAY, Wis. – For the Green Bay Packers, it’s out with the old and in with the new.
Literally.
The 2022 NFL season kicked off with the Packers fielding the 16th-oldest roster in the league – by far the oldest dating to at least 2005, which was the late Ted Thompson’s first year as general manager.
They’ll be much, much younger in 2023.
With the Packers trading quarterback Aaron Rodgers and moving on from kicker Mason Crosby, tight end Marcedes Lewis and receiver Randall Cobb, they have only three players who are 30 years old or older on their 90-man roster.
A Packer Central examination of the 32 NFL rosters shows only one team – the Indianapolis Colts – have fewer players than the Packers in the 30-plus group.
For Green Bay, punter Pat O’Donnell is 32, left tackle David Bakhtiari is 31 and outside linebacker Preston Smith is 30.
Inside linebacker De’Vondre Campbell, who will turn 30 on July 1, is the only other player on the roster who will hit the three-decade mark this season.
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