Packers 2025 Callsheet: 3rd & Long

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

This is the 6th article in the series, where we’re looking at 3rd & Long (where “Long” is defined as needing 7+ yards for a 1st down). We’ll reference Success Rate & Explosive Rate in this series, so here are the definitions. On 3rd down, a play is considered a success if it gains 100% 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. It’s obvious to say, but I’ll say it anyway: you don’t want to find yourself facing 3rd & Long if you can help it. It’s not a fun situation.

The defense knows what approach you’ll be taking (offenses had a 91. 8% pass rate on 3rd & Long in 2025), so they’re free to tell their edge rushers to just pin their ears back and try to hit the QB, while also focusing on throwing off the timing/passing lanes of the passing game on the back end. On the season, offenses averaged a Success Rate of 25.