Big Ten: Packers-Eagles noteworthy numbers

0: Takeaways by the Packers, who had forced eight in their 3-0 start. Since the start of the 2015 season, the Packers are 1-15 when not forcing a turnover. The exception was last year’s 44-38 overtime victory at the Jets.
1: Career interceptions thrown from the 3-yard line or closer by Aaron Rodgers in his career until he was picked off by Nigel Bradham to seal the Packers’ fate on Thursday. Before that, he was 70-of-119 for 140 yards with 64 touchdowns, according to Pro Football Reference.
3.3: Yards per carry this season by running back Aaron Jones, including 13 carries for 21 yards (1.6 average) vs. Philadelphia. He averaged a league-best 5.5 yards per carry in 2017 and 2018.
4: Four consecutive games without a touchdown reception by Davante Adams to start the season. His 35 touchdown receptions the previous three seasons trailed only Antonio Brown’s 36. He hadn’t been kept out of the end zone in back-to-back games since the first two games without Rodgers in 2017.
10: Missed tackles forced by the Packers, their best of the season by our unofficial count. Five of those were by Jones and two were on a scramble by Rodgers after he was questioned about his running skills earlier in the week.
16: Red-zone passing attempts by Rodgers on Thursday. That’s more than all but seven quarterbacks through Week 3.
21: Points on opening drives this season by the Packers, with three touchdowns in three consecutive games. On the other hand, the Packers scored 20 points in the second halves of their four games. Only Chicago (19) and Miami (zero) have scored fewer.
31: First downs by the Packers, the third-most in the Rodgers era and the highest total in the league this season heading into Sunday’s games.
54.9: Passer rating on those aforementioned red-zone passes by Rodgers. He went 5-of-16 (31.3 percent) for 51 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
155: The yardage edge for the Packers, who outgained the Eagles 491-336. During the Rodgers era, the Packers are 23-2 when being at least plus-155. The Packers had been 22-0 in those games until losing at Detroit last season and again on Thursday.
176: Rushing yards allowed by the Packers, including 98 after contact by our count. With 198 rushing yards by Minnesota and 149 by Denver, the Packers have yielded at least 149 rushing yards in three consecutive games. That’s a dubious first since 2008. League-wide over the last decade, only eight teams have had streaks of four consecutive games. The Packers haven’t had four such games since the final four games of the 1990 season.
241: Passing yards by Rodgers in the first half. His season-high total in the first three games was 235 yards vs. Denver.
344: Career touchdown passes by Rodgers. On his first of the night against Philadelphia, he snapped a tie with Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton for ninth place in NFL history. Rodgers should move into seventh place by season’s end; benched Eli Manning is eighth with 362 and injured Ben Roethlisberger is seventh with 363.
460: Total yards by Rodgers, with 422 through the air, 46 on the ground and minus-8 in sacks. That’s the highest figure of his career, beating the 445 yards from last year’s game at the Jets. The Packers are 5-3 when Rodgers goes over 400.
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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.