Take a leap with me, if you will. If time travel were possible, the Packers would likely love to do a number of things over.
Coaching up Brandon Bostick to stick to his assignment on one fateful onside kick completely changes franchise history, and perhaps NFL history. However, that is long enough ago that it likely doesn't impact the current team.
Maybe it buys Mike McCarthy a bit longer in Green Bay, and the team doesn't ultimately turn to Matt LaFleur back in 2018. The writing was seemingly on the wall, and with Ted Thompson approaching retirement, typically a head coach and GM are tied together anyway. So LaFleur, or any other head coach, was also inevitable.
That said, there's one big decision that would've impacted the current Packers: The Josh Myers draft pick.
The Packers' offensive line has been one of their biggest weaknesses, and in turn, the team has had to correct multiple years of Brian Gutekunst mistakes by signing guards Laken Tomlinson, Mechi Becton, and Kevin Zeitler.
So, in a world with a time machine only the Packers have access to, redoing one draft pick very well could fix all of that. It goes back to the 2021 NFL Draft with Josh Myers, a selection that's had a butterfly effect that haunts the team today.
The Packers' offensive line woes can be tied to selecting Josh Myers over Creed Humphrey
It might seem a tad dramatic to pin all the Packers' offensive line woes on one player, or rather, one selection. This is not Josh Myers' fault. He was fine and had no choice in the matter.
Instead, the blame lies solely with Brian Gutekunst and the decision-makers in Green Bay's draft war room for selecting Myers over Creed Humphrey, whom the Kansas City Chiefs selected one pick later.
Humphrey's accolades are well known. He's had one of the highest pass-block win rates in the NFL since coming into the league. He's anchored the Chiefs to two Super Bowl wins and has been selected as an AP All-Pro three times, along with four Pro Bowl selections.
Additionally, he has been healthy enough to start every game in his NFL career, knock on wood. I don't want Chiefs fans coming after me should something happen that would cause him to miss time. By all standards, Humphrey has been an incredible selection that Green Bay had every opportunity to make.
What is even more baffling is that, in retrospect, Humphrey makes significantly more sense based on how the Packers typically select offensive linemen. He has a perfect 10.0 RAS score, whereas Myers technically never had one due to limited testing data. Humphrey is an inch shorter, but has longer arms and is eight pounds lighter than Myers.
The butterfly effect that followed the Packers' Josh Myers decision
It starts with Elgton Jenkins
Again, none of that is directly Myers' fault. He's also been mostly healthy, save for his rookie season. The problem truly arises at the end of his tenure with the Packers.
After the 2024 season, Green Bay let Myers walk in free agency and ultimately signed a one-year deal with the New York Jets for $3.5 million. Myers then earned a two-year extension before the end of last season.
This is where things started going downhill for the Packers.
Instead of re-upping Myers, Green Bay moved Elgton Jenkins to center and added Aaron Banks in free agency on a four-year, $77 million deal that, although restructured after last season, has not aged well. Banks has missed time every year since entering the league in 2021 and is injured again to start this season.
The Packers have since moved on from Jenkins but are still carrying a dead cap hit of $4.38 million. He signed with the Cleveland Browns and has been the top-ranked pass-blocking center this season, per Pro Football Focus. While his run blocking has been towards the bottom of the league, Sean Rhyan is only one spot better in that metric this season.
The reshuffle that followed
Further, letting Myers walk started the current shuffle on the line that we see today. Jenkins was at his best as a guard. While he was a serviceable center, when he went down with a season-ending injury in 2025, Green Bay moved Rhyan from right guard to center instead of going with Jacob Monk, the team's only "true center."
The team then had to replace Rhyan at guard, which ultimately ended up being filled by Anthony Belton, a left tackle converted to guard.
Once again, Green Bay would draft a center in the 2026 NFL Draft, selecting Jager Burton. Instead of having him or Monk play their "natural" position, the Packers moved both to guard, while a guard played center.
Naturally, with four of five starting offensive linemen playing out of position, and Jordan Morgan getting his first career reps at his natural spot, the results on the field have looked awful, as could be expected.
The tide does seem to be turning. The Packers brought in three guards since losing to Atlanta in Week 3. Laken Tomlinson has already been thrust into the starting lineup in practice at left guard. It would stand to reason that once Kevin Zeitler gets ramped up, he will slide into the right guard spot. Even late in his NFL career, he has remained one of the best in the league.
Time-travel movies usually don't work out in the big picture. The characters usually learn that they shouldn't have altered the past. Who knows, if Green Bay had selected Humphrey instead of Myers, the results could have shifted the fate of the world tremendously.
Still, it is fun to think about what could have been. What if Aaron Rodgers had enjoyed two seasons with one of the best centers in football? And what the transition to Jordan Love could have been?
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