Best Green Bay Packers player to wear No. 94 has fourth-most sacks in team history

Welcome back to our series covering the greatest Green Bay Packers players to wear every jersey number from No. 0 to No. 99.

Well, we've offically hit the midway point of our final group here in the 90s, and we continue toward the end of our journey with a player at No. 95 who racked up a ton of sacks but didn't get nearly enough credit for doing so during his playing days.

We'll get to all of that, of course, but first, let's kick things off by running through our usual routine of looking at every player who's donned this digit for the Green & Gold over the years.

Roy Barker, DE
Matt Brock, DE/DT
Karl Brooks, DL
Mark D'Onofrio, LB
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, DE
Bob Kuberski, DT
David Logan, DT
Dean Lowry, DE
Charles Martin, DE/DT
Stan Mataele, DT
Phillip Merling, DE
Jarius Wynn, DE

While picking the winner here was an easy thing to do, the same can be said of the runner-up, as that honor goes to defensive end Dean Lowry, who played seven solid seasons in Titletown from 2016 to 2022, racking up 252 total tackles, 23 of which resulted in a loss, 34 QB hits, and 15.5 sacks.

But the clear call in this slot is Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila.

Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila tallied 74.5 sacks in just nine seasons with the Green Bay Packers

A three-year starter at San Diego State, where he set the school record for sacks, which was previously held by Packers Hall of Famer Mike Douglass, Gbaja-Biamila was taken by Green Bay in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft with the 149th overall selection.

He appeared in just seven games as a rookie, recording 1.5 sacks, and while he didn't start a single game in his second season, he still easily led the team with 13.5 sacks, nearly doubling the total of second-place finisher Vonnie Holiday, who ended his year with 7.0.

Gbaja-Biamila finally cracked the starting lineup at right defensive end in 2002, posting another dozen sacks, and in 2003, he earned his lone trip to the Pro Bowl after recording another 10.0.

Now, if you look at things from an official standpoint, and by that we mean the fact that sacks didn't become an official NFL stat until 1982, then Gbaja-Biamila was the first Packers player ever to tally double-digit sacks in three straight seasons. And he added a fourth year, by the way, with another 13.5 in 2004.

But if you trust the folks at Pro Football Reference, who have data dating back to 1960, the great Willie Davis was the first, as he had his own four-season stretch of double-digit sacks from 1964 to 1967. Either way, Gbaja-Biamila's stretch was impressive, and the fact that he earned only one Pro Bowl selection during his run is a travesty.

While the 6-foot-4, 250-pounder never reached double digits again, he still put up a combined 24.0 over the final four years of his career, thus bringing his career total to 74.5 when he hung up his cleats after being released during the 2008 season.

If you go by the official list, his 74.5 sacks are the second-most in team history, trailing only Clay Matthews' 83.5. But again, if you trust the folks at Pro Football Reference, which we do, he sits in fourth on Green Bay's all-time list behind Willie Davis (99.5), Clay Matthews (83.5), and Ezra Johnson (82.0).

Again, either way, Gbaja-Biamila had a quietly impressive career, and while he didn't earn the individual accolades he deserved during his playing days, he was deservedly inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila tallied 74.5 sacks in just nine seasons with the Green Bay Packers

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