Cheesehead
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This play has nothing to do with the running game, but it’s worth showing for two reasons. First, it’s another example of how masterful Rodgers can be at manipulating defenders, even the best of them. Second, he does so this time with a pump fake, which is something of a lost art in this day and age of timing routes, quick screens and jet sweeps. With Allison and Graham lined up side by side to Rodgers’ right, Allison runs a curl right at the first-down marker and Graham runs a go route behind him. Watch how the pump fake by Rodgers, staring down Allison, gets Kuechly to bite. The All-Pro linebacker’s step up toward the curl route opens up the throwing lane down the seam to Graham, who turns in his second-longest play in a Packers uniform.