Packers All-Quarter Century Team: Right tackles represent the Midwest

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Evan “Tex” Western

Packers All-Quarter Century Team: Right tackles represent the Midwest

Three of the four nominees are from the upper Midwest, including one whose Sunday Night Football introduction will live in Packers fans’ minds forever.

After a long holiday weekend break, we are back to continue our examination of the best Green Bay Packers of the last 25 years. Last week, we concluded on Thursday with Jermichael Finley narrowly earing the top spot as the Packers’ #1 tight end, while David Bakhtiari was a runaway winner at the left tackle spot over Chad Clifton.

On this Monday morning, we switch our focus to the other tackle spot, looking at the right tackle position. As with the left side, the Packers have had some impressive stability at this position over the last two-plus decades. Let’s examine our nominees

Right Tackle Nominees

Mark Tauscher (2000-2010)

134 games played, 132 starts

One of the Packers’ great draft successes of this century, Tauscher doubles as a local hero and fan favorite. After playing high school football at Auburndale — a half hour’s drive from Stevens Point or Wisconsin Rapids — Tauscher walked on to Barry Alvarez’s Wisconsin Badgers squad and eventually became a starter. Tauscher was part of two Rose Bowl-winning teams, then saw himself get drafted by the Packers in the seventh round in 2000.

In week two in his rookie season, starting right tackle Earl Dotson went down with an injury, and Tauscher took over for him, taking hold of a right tackle job that he would keep when healthy for the next decade. Although he sat out most of the 2002 season with an injury of his own, Tauscher missed a total of just 8 games over the next six seasons from 2003-2008.

In 2009, Tauscher started the season as a free agent, but the Packers re-signed him early in the season amid Allen Barbre’s struggles at the position. He started 8 games that season, then signed for one more year for 2010. He made it just four games into that campaign before a shoulder injury brought his season to an end, but he earned a Super Bowl ring when the team went on to win Super Bowl XLV with rookie Bryan Bulaga lining up at Tauscher’s spot.

Tauscher retired having never played a down for another NFL team and is now contributes to both the Badgers and Packers radio broadcasts.

Bryan Bulaga (2010-2019)

126 games played, 122 starts

BRYAN BULAGA. IOWA.

The Packers’ first-round pick in 2010, Bulaga stepped in for Tauscher with no dropoff, starting every game from week 5 onward and becoming one of the youngest players ever to start in a Super Bowl. That performance entrenched him as a long-term starter, but frequent injuries cost him chunks of time.

The biggest of those was in 2013, when Bulaga was slated to switch from right tackle to the left side. That summer, he tore his ACL during the Packers’ Family Night event, which moved from a more competitive scrimmage to a glorified practice the following year. With David Bakhtiari holding down the left side that season, Bulaga returned back to the right side, where he would be the starter until he left to sigh a free agent contract with the Los Angeles Chargers for the 2020 season.

Bulaga played in at least 12 games in five of the six seasons from 2014 to 2019, being limited to five games in 2017 with a high ankle sprain and later another torn ACL. But after each major injury, Bulaga bounced back the following season to provide the team with excellent pass blocking on the right side.

Billy Turner (2019-2021)

43 games played, 43 starts

The Packers signed Turner as part of their massive 2019 free agent class, primarily intending him to play right guard. The Minnesota native and North Dakota State product did that in 2019 with Bulaga suiting up for every game, then moved out to tackle to start the 2020 season. That season saw some shuffling on the offensive line, however, and Turner started games at right tackle, left tackle, and right guard over the course of the season.

He then became the full-time starter at right tackle for the 2021 season, suiting up in 13 of 17 regular season games before missing the final four weeks of the regular season with a knee injury. Turner returned to the lineup at left tackle for the Divisional Playoff loss to the 49ers as David Bakhtiari, who had returned from his recovery from a torn ACL for the week 17 game, was surprisingly unable to suit up. That game would end up being his final contest as a Packer, as he was released in the offseason and played one more season each with Denver and the New York Jets.

Zach Tom (2022-2024)

43 games played, 39 starts

A 4th-round pick in 2022, Tom stepped into a Packers offensive line in flux in 2022. Bakhtiari returned but was in and out of the lineup, playing just 11 games. Elgton Jenkins started the season at right tackle, but moved back in to guard early in the season, giving way to Yosh Nijman in that spot.

A versatile player, Tom had played tackle and center in college. Ultimately, he started five games as a rookie, a few at guard and a few at right tackle, where he showed an impressive ability to handle pass rushers. That made him a no-brainer starter at right tackle for his sophomore season, and he has started every game over the past two seasons.

Having solidified himself as one of the top pass-blocking right tackles in the NFC, Tom is now in line for a potential contract extension heading into a contract year.

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