Packers 2025 Callsheet: 2nd & Short

If you’re new to this series, we’re reviewing how the Packers offense performed in 2025 by down & distance. We’re doing that by building out a callsheet. I ran it all down in my initial post .

This is the 5th article in the series, where we’re looking at 2nd & short (where “short” is defined as needing 1-3 yards for a 1st down). We’ll reference Success Rate & Explosive Rate in this series, so here are the definitions. On 2nd down, a play is considered a success if it gains at least 50% of the yards needed for a 1st down.

A play is considered explosive if a pass gains 16+ yards or a run gains 12+ yards. I mentioned last week that there are buckets where we don’t have a ton of plays to look at. Friends and neighbors, this is one of those buckets.

In 2025, the Packers faced 1. 6 non-red zone Second and Short situations per game, the 2nd fewest total in the league. We’re going to round that up to 2 for this article.