2025 · Week 1 · Division

Final

Lions

Detroit

QB Jared Goff

13·27

Packers

Green Bay

QB Jordan Love

Lambeau Field · outdoors · grass · 60°F · wind 5mph

Closing spread

GB -1.5

Total

48.5

Model margin

+1.8est.

GB perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Availability

The injury report

The official league filing for this week — game designations first, then who missed or was limited in practice.

Lions

Packers

Win probability

  • Packers
  • Lions

How each play moved the game.

Packers winsLions wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Lionsedge mapPackers
  • +0.071EPA / play+0.122
  • 45.0%Success rate48.0%
  • +0.167EPA / dropback+0.274
  • -0.071EPA / rush-0.076
  • 10.1%Explosive rate10.3%
  • +1.64CPOE+5.62
  • 39.2%Third-down rate48.8%
  • 66.0%Red-zone TD rate62.5%
  • 2.54Points / drive2.39
  • 1.4%Turnover rate1.3%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

GB lead 36–19 since 1999

Meetings average 45.8 points. GB are 28-26-1 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2026 · W7GB @ DET17–20DET
2025 · W13GB @ DET31–24GB
2024 · W14GB @ DET31–34DET
2024 · W9DET @ GB24–14DET
2023 · W12GB @ DET29–22GB
2023 · W4DET @ GB34–20DET
2022 · W18DET @ GB20–16DET
2022 · W9GB @ DET9–15DET

Possession by possession

How it unfolded

Every drive: who had the ball, how far it went, how it ended, and the score as it settled.

Drive-by-drive log
BallStartPlaysYardsResultDET–GB
GBQ1 15:001268Touchdown0–7
DETQ1 9:2631Punt0–7
GBQ1 6:52636Field goal0–10
DETQ1 3:581668Field goal3–10
GBQ2 9:27265Touchdown3–17
DETQ2 8:341355Turnover3–17
GBQ2 1:1039Punt3–17
DETQ2 0:0500End of half3–17
DETQ3 15:00859Field goal6–17
GBQ3 9:4038Punt6–17
DETQ3 7:39511Punt6–17
GBQ3 4:15934Punt6–17
DETQ4 15:003-7Punt6–17
GBQ4 12:40836Touchdown6–24
DETQ4 7:5740Turnover on downs6–24
GBQ4 6:3737Field goal6–27
DETQ4 4:221460Touchdown13–27
GBQ4 0:5514End of half13–27

Box score

Individual performances

Lions

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Jared Goff31/3922511

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
David Montgomery11252.30
Jahmyr Gibbs9192.10
Jameson Williams133.00
Jared Goff1-1-1.00

Packers

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Jordan Love16/2218820

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Josh Jacobs19663.51
Jordan Love341.30
Emanuel Wilson144.00
Tucker Kraft133.00
Chris Brooks111.00

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line +1.54.1%2.8%7.1%7.5%3.1%4.7%2.9%

Positive margins favour Packers; negative favour Lions.

Half-point at risk

2.14%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

53.8%

Expected total

46.1est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+0.04
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment0.00
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin+1.75