Best Green Bay Packers player to wear No. 99 was even better in the front office

Welcome back one final time to Lombardi Ave's series covering the greatest Green Bay Packers players to wear every jersey number from No. 0 all the way up to No. 99.

Well, Cheeseheads—and all non-Cheeseheads who've followed along—we've finally come to the end of our long journey, and while we wish we could say we've got a stronger list of players to close things out here at No. 99, the fact of the matter is that No. 99 simply doesn't have the most legendary lineage in Titletown.

That said, though, our official selection was a solid special-teamer during his playing days with the Packers and then went on to have a great deal of success in other roles within the organization. But before we break all that down, let's look at everyone who's worn the double nines for the Green & Gold over the years.

Don Davey, DE
John Dorsey, LB
Jonathan Ford, DL
Bruce Gaston, DT
Ricky Jean-Francois, DT
Charles Johnson, DT
James Looney, DT
Mike Montgomery, DT/DE
Jamal Reynolds, DE
Christian Ringo, DE
Austin Robbins, DT
Jermaine Smith, DT
Barryn Sorrell, DL
Jeremy Thompson, DE
Corey Williams, DT
Jerel Worthy, DT

As this is our 100th and final entry, we thought it would be fun to run our little Olympic podium one last time.

On the bronze stand, we've got defensive tackle Charles Johnson, who had two separate stints with the franchise, first in 1979 and 1980 and then again in 1983, ultimately tallying 7.5 sacks over the course of those three seasons in 45 appearances.

In the silver spot, we've got another defensive tackle, Corey Williams, who spent four seasons in Green Bay from 2004 to 2007, recording 119 total tackles, 20 tackles for loss, and 17.0 sacks in 56 regular-season appearances, adding another 16 tackles in three postseason contests.

And taking the gold is none other than John Dorsey.

John Dorsey was a solid special-teamer for the Packers for five years and spent another 20-plus years with the team in the front office

After a strong collegiate career at the University of Connecticut, Dorsey was taken by Green Bay in the fourth round of the 1984 NFL Draft with the 99th overall selection.

Now, if one were to look at the overall numbers of Dorsey compared to the two players mentioned above, they may not look as impressive, particularly when it comes to sacks, as Dorsey actually never recorded even one during his entire five-year career.

Unlike the other two players above, however, Dorsey actually owns a little piece of Packers history, as his 35 tackles on special teams as a rookie remain the most of any Green Bay player since the stat became official in 1976. And his 30 in 1985 are still good for the third-most in team history, with Guy Prather's 34 in 1981 sitting in between those two totals.

When the 6-foot-2, 240-pounder was effectively forced to retire in 1989 after suffering a serious injury in pregame warmups ahead of the season opener, he'd tallied 130 tackles, three forced fumbles, and four fumble recoveries. See, we told you the simple stats might not look like much, but his energy was unparalleled, and his football IQ was phenomenal, which is why Green Bay brought him back in 1991 as a scout, a job he held for six years before spending another two years as the team's director of college scouting.

After one year away from the Packers in 1999, which was spent with Mike Holmgren and the Seattle Seahawks as the director of player personnel, Dorsey returned to his post as the Packers' director of college scouting, which he held for a dozen years before being promoted to director of football operations in 2012. It was during this run that he was credited for helping to bring in the likes of Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews, and Greg Jennings, among plenty of others who helped bring the Lombardi back to Lambeau in 2010.

Dorsey then went on to become the general manager of both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cleveland Browns and then went on to hold different positions with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions.

And that, as the saying goes, is all she wrote. We want to thank everyone who's followed along, and if you missed anything, you can find every other entry below.

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