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Big fan of Green Bay football? Then check out this list of Green Bay Packers linebackers.&nbsp;It includes every starting linebacker from throughout <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-green-bay-packers-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Green Bay Packers history</a>, including current linebackers and past ones. An important part of the Green Bay defense, the LB position includes middle or inside linebackers, outside (strong side or weakside) linebackers, and edge rushers in the 3-4 defense.&nbsp;

Featuring some of the&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-linebackers-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest NFL linebackers</a> of all time,&nbsp;the best Packers&nbsp;LBs include Ray Nitschke, Dave Robinson, A. J. Hawk, Clay Matthews, and Nick Barnett.

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Ray Nitschke

Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was a professional American football middle linebacker who spent his entire 15-year National Football League (NFL) career with the Green Bay Packers. Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, he was the anchor of the defense for head coach Vince Lombardi in the 1960s, leading the Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first two Super Bowls.

Clay Matthews III

William Clay Matthews III (born May 14, 1986) is an American football outside linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). After attending Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, Matthews was a walk-on student athlete at the University of Southern California for the USC Trojans football team under head coach Pete Carroll. At USC, Matthews was a standout special-teams player, winning three consecutive Special Teams Player of the Year awards from 2006 to 2008. He also played reserve outside linebacker during those years before moving into a starting role his senior season. During his college career, he was a part of three Pac-10 Championship teams.
Matthews was considered a top prospect for the 2009 NFL Draft. He was ultimately selected by the Packers in the first round of the draft (26th overall) after the team traded up to make the selection. In his rookie year, Matthews recorded 10 sacks while playing outside linebacker. He topped that total in 2010 with 13.5 sacks, helping the Packers to their Super Bowl XLV victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Matthews continued his role as a leading pass rusher, recording at least six sacks in the first nine seasons he played. He also has showed his athleticism and abilities by playing both inside and outside linebacker during the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
A member of the Matthews family of football players, he is the son of former NFL linebacker Clay Matthews Jr. and nephew of Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman Bruce Matthews.

Dave Robinson

Richard David Robinson (born May 3, 1941) is a former American football player.   He played college football at Pennsylvania State University and professionally in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins.  Robinson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2013.

A. J. Hawk

Aaron James "A. J." Hawk (born January 6, 1984) is a former American football linebacker who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers fifth overall in the 2006 NFL Draft and he would later win Super Bowl XLV with the team over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was also a member of the Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Ohio State, where he earned All-American honors twice and won the Lombardi Award as a senior.  He won the BCS National Championship with the Buckeyes as a freshman.

Nick Barnett

Nicholas Alexander Barnett (born May 27, 1981) is a former American football linebacker.  He played college football for Oregon State University, and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He has played professionally for the NFL's Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins. With the Packers, he won Super Bowl XLV against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Fred Carr

Freddie Alton Carr (August 19, 1946 – February 19, 2018) was an American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1977.Carr attended Phoenix Union High School where he competed in basketball, and representing P.U.H.S. as a discus thrower and in the shot put. Fred was in the top ten discus throwers in the US in his senior year. He played for Phoenix College before transferring to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 1965, where he was called "Probably the best overall linebacker in school history." Fred was inducted into the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame, September 23, 2005, and would later also be elected to the Phoenix College (PCAA) Hall of Fame in their inaugural class of 2007.Carr was drafted in the first round of the 1968 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers.  Carr's professional career spanned 10 seasons, all with the Packers.  He retired from pro football in 1977.Carr died on February 19, 2018, after suffering from dementia and prostate cancer, at the age of 71.

Ted Hendricks

Theodore Paul Hendricks (born November 1, 1947) is a Guatemalan-born former American football player who was a linebacker for 15 seasons with the Baltimore Colts, Green Bay Packers, and the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders in the National Football League (NFL). He was a member of four Super Bowl-winning teams, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990 after being elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987. He is distinguished as being the first Guatemalan-born player in the NFL.

Brian Noble

Brian Noble (born September 6, 1962, Anaheim, California) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Green Bay Packers from 1985-1993. After retiring from the National Football League, Noble went on to produce his own outdoor television program called Hitting the Outdoors which aired throughout the Midwest.  Noble also owned the Green Bay Blizzard until October, 2009, which played in the af2. Brian and his wife Cindy are the co-founders of a 501(c)(3) corporation "A Noble Cause" for kids with cancer which raises money for children and their families dealing with cancer by selling multi-colored cancer awareness bracelets.  Brian and Cindy have four daughters, and as of June 11, 2008, the entire family lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Prior to the NFL, Brian played football and baseball at Anaheim High School, and football at Fullerton College and Arizona State University.

Jim Carter

James Charles Carter (born October 18, 1948) is a former American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League (NFL) from 1970 to 1978. He attended South Saint Paul High School.
Carter was a finalist for a position on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents when issue was made of a publicized incident of sexual harassment during his NFL playing days in 1976. While admitting it was "bad behavior" that lead to a lawsuit by the victim, Carter accused university leaders of waging a smear campaign against him; Carter had been critical of the University's strict punishment of players accused of sexual assault.

Lee Roy Caffey

Lee Roy Caffey (June 3, 1941 – January 18, 1994) was an American football outside linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers. He played college football at Texas A&M University.

Tim Harris

Tim or Timothy Harris may refer to:

Tim Harris (bishop) (born 1962), sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville
Tim Harris (drummer) (1948–2007), drummer for The Foundations
Tim Harris (footballer) (born 1959), English football manager
Tim Harris (linebacker) (born 1964), American football linebacker for Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers
Tim Harris (running back) (born 1961), American football player
Tim Harris (cornerback), American football player
Tim Harris (South African politician) (born c. 1979), South African Member of Parliament
Tim Harris (Indiana politician), American politician from the state of Indiana
Tim Harris (soccer) (born 1961), U.S. soccer player
Timothy Harris (born 1964), Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Timothy Harris (writer) (born 1946), American author, screenwriter and producer
Timothy J. G. Harris (born 1958), historian

George Koonce

George Koonce (born October 15, 1968) is an American athlete and athletic director. A former linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), he served as the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee between 2009 and 2010.

Randy Scott

Randolph Charles Scott (born January 31, 1959 in Decatur, Georgia) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played 7 seasons in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and he played for Bear Bryant at Alabama.

Dan Currie

Daniel George Currie (June 27, 1935 – September 11, 2017) was an American football player, a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons, with the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams.

Desmond Bishop

Desmond Lamont Bishop (born July 24, 1984) is a former American football linebacker that is currently the defensive coordinator at Edison High School in Stockton, California. He played college football for the University of California, Berkeley, and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft and later won Super Bowl XLV with the team over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bishop has also played for the Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals.

Tom MacLeod

Thomas William "Tom" MacLeod (born January 10, 1951) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.  He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 1973 NFL Draft.  He played college football at Minnesota.
MacLeod also played for the Baltimore Colts.

Rich Wingo

Richard Allen Wingo (born July 16, 1956) is an American Republican politician and a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played five seasons for the Green Bay Packers from 1979 to 1984. He was drafted by the Packers in the seventh round of the 1979 NFL Draft out of the University of Alabama.
He was a part of one of the most famous plays in college football history, "The Goal Line Stand" in Alabama's Sugar Bowl victory over Penn State in 1979. He played for college coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. From Pee Wee football through high school, he led every team he played for in tackles.Wingo is the only player in Packers history to have a scoring total of 1 point. On September 6, 1981, against the Chicago Bears, he caught a pass in the end zone for a successful point-after-touchdown after a botched place-kick attempt. (At the time, either a successful place-kick or advancing the ball into the end zone both counted for one point.)
Wingo served as strength coach at Alabama under former head coach Mike DuBose.He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and has two sons: Jake and Luke.
In 2014 Wingo ran for a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives, winning the general election in November. He was sworn into office in 2015.

Gary Weaver

Gary Lynn Weaver (born March 13, 1949 in Florence, Alabama) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the 7th round of the 1973 NFL Draft. He played college football at Fresno State.
Weaver also played for the Green Bay Packers.

Tom Toner

Thomas Edward Toner (January 25, 1950 – August 26, 1990) was a professional American football player who played linebacker for four seasons for the Green Bay Packers.

Blake Martinez

Blake Edmon Martinez (born January 9, 1994) is an American football inside linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He attended Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona before attending Stanford University on a scholarship. At Stanford, he was a two-year starter at linebacker for the Cardinal where he was named to the first-team All-Pac-12 team in 2015. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft.

Fred Strickland

Fredrick William Strickland, Jr. (born August 15, 1966) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Purdue University.



Bernardo Harris

Bernardo Harris (born October 15, 1971) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He attended Chapel Hill High School, graduating in 1990. He was recruited by Mack Brown to play at the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1994. After not being drafted, he was signed as a free agent by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1994. At Kansas City, Harris injured his knee in the first week of training camp and was out of football.Bernardo Harris became a free agent and was signed by the Green Bay Packers in 1995, playing in eleven games his rookie season. Harris played for the Green Bay Packers for seven seasons  and played on the 1996 Super Bowl XXXI and 1997 Super Bowl XXXII teams.
In 2002, Harris was signed as a free agent by the Baltimore Ravens, after a shoulder injury to Ray Lewis. In 2003, Bernardo Harris was placed on the injured reserved and subsequently retired.

Wayne Simmons

Wayne General Simmons (December 15, 1969 - August 23, 2002) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League.
Simmons was drafted by the Green Bay Packers with the 15th pick of the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft. Simmons played for Green Bay for four and a half years, earning a Super Bowl ring at the end of the 1996 season.  Simmons was well known for shutting down opposing tight ends, but in doing this task extremely well he was not able to obtain the attention-grabbing statistics of quarterback sacks. Simmons was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs during the 1997 season when Seth Joyner returned from knee surgery. The Chiefs waived Simmons in 1998 after a 30-7 Monday Night loss to their arch-rival Denver Broncos, in which Simmons and fellow linebacker Derrick Thomas were called for a total of five personal fouls on the Broncos' final touchdown drive.  The Buffalo Bills claimed Simmons off waivers on November 19, 1998, and played five games.  He was released by the team in February 1999.

Ed O'Neil

Ed O'Neill

Edward Leonard O'Neill (born April 12, 1946) is an American actor and comedian. His roles include Al Bundy on the Fox Network sitcom Married... with Children, for which he was nominated for two Golden Globes, and Jay Pritchett on the award-winning ABC sitcom Modern Family, a role for which he has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and won four Screen Actors Guild Awards, all for being part of a best Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He has also appeared in the Wayne's World film series, Little Giants, Prefontaine, The Bone Collector and Sun Dogs, and has done voice-work for the Wreck It Ralph franchise and Finding Dory.

Tom Bettis

Thomas William Bettis (March 17, 1933 – February 28, 2015) was an All-American football linebacker, NFL player, and NFL coach. After starring at Purdue, Bettis was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1955 NFL Draft.  He played nine seasons for the Packers, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Chicago Bears.  After his playing career, Bettis went on to coach in the NFL for 30 years, including for the 1969–70 Super Bowl IV champions and the 1966–67 AFL champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Bettis served as interim coach of the Chiefs in 1977 after the firing of Paul Wiggin. In seven games as head coach, Bettis compiled a 1–6 record, ending a 12-year stint as a coach of the Chiefs. He returned in 1988 to be the defensive backs coach of the Chiefs. He was inducted into both the Purdue University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.Bettis died on February 28, 2015.

Big fan of Green Bay football? Then check out this list of Green Bay Packers linebackers.&nbsp;It includes every starting linebacker from throughout Green Bay ...