Packers: Positives, negatives from Week 9 loss to Lions

Positive: Blake Martinez

Green Bay may finally have hit on a draft pick on defense.

Blake Martinez, after an underwhelming rookie season since being drafted in the fourth round out of Stanford, has developed tremendously.

Martinez recorded another 10 tackles against the Lions, making him one of the only Packers who looked like he was worth anything on defense.

Green Bay somehow hasn’t improved defensively in seven years.

Martinez may at long last be the kind of defensive presence at inside linebacker that the team has been lacking since Nick Barnett.

He is on his way to the Pro Bowl this season as the team’s leading tackler and youngest potential star on the roster.