Picking favorite Packers player and favorite Packers moment of last 25 years

Ahead of the 2025 season, Packers Wire has been celebrating the first 25 years of Green Bay Packers football this century. Our next celebration is a personal one, and one you — the reader — can participate in.

The question: Who was your favorite Packers player of the last 25 years, and which moment involving the Packers was your favorite between 2000 and 2024?

A highly successful quarter-century of Packers football has left no shortage of answers to both questions.

The staff at Packers Wire picked their favorite player and favorite moment of the last 25 years:

Zach Kruse

Favorite player: Charles Woodson
Favorite moment: Rodgers to Cobb Part II/Favre to Jennings in Denver

Charles Woodson is among the coolest football players to have ever played the sport, and his 2009 season is one the most underappreciated individual seasons by a defensive player ever. Davante Adams and Aaron Jones are honorable mentions for me here.

For favorite moment, I had to pick two. I was in the Lambeau Field press box for Week 1 of 2018, and I’ll never forget the roar inside the stadium when Cobb started racing down the field for the go-ahead score. That place was dead silent when Aaron Rodgers went down in the first half. It was bedlam when Cobb scored. And there was just something special about the 2007 Packers. The magical season was embodied by Brett Favre’s overtime heave to Greg Jennings in Denver. I was a sophomore at UW-Madison at the time, and I went crazy when Favre and Jennings ended it on “Monday Night Football.” It’s too bad that season ended so miserably because the ride was something special.

Rodgers & Cobb’s 75-Yd TD Connection to Take the Lead!

Brandon Carwile

Favorite player: Donald Driver
Favorite moment: “He’s got Randall Cobb!”

From growing up homeless to being drafted in the seventh round and eventually becoming the Packers’ all-time leading receiver, Donald Driver has one of the most inspiring stories in NFL history. He was ultra-reliable, rarely missing a game, and one of the surest-handed receivers of the 2000s. His infectious smile and signature shimmy after a big first-down catch became iconic. Driver was the living embodiment of what it means to be a Green Bay Packer.

After missing seven games with a broken collarbone, Aaron Rodgers returned for a must-win Week 17 matchup against the Bears and delivered one of the most iconic moments of his career. Facing fourth-and-8, down by one with less than a minute remaining, Rodgers escaped pressure—thanks to a key block from John Kuhn—and launched a 48-yard touchdown to a wide-open Randall Cobb. The throw sealed the win, clinched the NFC North, and sent the Packers to the playoffs. It was the kind of moment you usually only see in movies.

Aaron Rodgers to Randall Cobb, 48-Yard TD Stuns the Bears (Week 17, 2013) | Packers vs. Bears | NFL