Chris Jacke re-established the standard for kickers in Green Bay

• Inducted: 2013
• Kicker: 1989-96
• Height: 6-0; Weight: 205
• College: Texas-El Paso, 1984-86, ’88

• Associated Press All-Pro Team (chosen since 1940): 1993
• Press-Gazette All-Century Team: 1999

Starting with when they drafted Chester Marcol as their first soccer-style kicker in 1972 and over 17 seasons, the Packers benefited from stretches where their placekickers were reliable at the very least. Marcol was exceptional over his first three years. Jan Stenerud, the first pure kicker to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was in the twilight of his career when he played for the Packers from 1980-83, but he was still consistent. So was Al Del Greco in 1984 and ’85, his first two seasons.

But Chris Jacke was the Packers’ first soccer-style kicker to pass the test of time. One statistic provides all the necessary proof to substantiate that. In his eight seasons with the Packers, Jacke scored 820 points and fell just three short of breaking Don Hutson’s club record for career scoring.

Drafted in the sixth round in 1989, following a season in which four different Packers kickers made only 13 of 25 field goal attempts and missed six extra points, Jacke had an immediate impact. He also enjoyed one of the most memorable seasons of any kicker in Packers history.

In his rookie year, the Packers went 10-6 and won six games by three points or less, including four one-pointers. Jacke, in turn, settled three games with a field goal in the final 102 seconds and provided the difference in two others with late extra points. Overall, he led the Packers in scoring with 108 points, made 22 of 28 field goal tries and all 42 of his extra point attempts.

Blair Bush, Jacke’s long snapper over his first three seasons and considered one of the best in the league over a 17-year career, said during Jacke’s second season, “Nobody’s automatic, but very rarely have I seen him hit a bad one – maybe once a month.”

Jacke’s first game-winning field goal came in his fourth NFL game when he booted a…