Kevin King played football for the Packers on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, even though he’d been listed as questionable as late as Friday due to a back injury.
We’ll never know what sort of pain he played through, or what he had to do to get back for this matchup. He’d missed the teams’ game earlier this year — a crushing 28-point loss by Green Bay — so you can imagine he really wanted to be out there today. And he found a way.
What he’ll be remembered for, though, is a thoroughly ineffective performance in Tampa Bay’s 31-26 win. An unusually tall corner (he’s 6-foot-3), his lack of quickness was exposed time after time.
kevin king had himself a game pic.twitter.com/eGCTSP2UFL
— ethan (@ethquann) January 24, 2021
- Top left: King falls down after not tracking the ball at all on Mike Evans’ opening touchdown.
- Top right: King can’t stop Leonard Fournette from scoring to make it 14-7 early in the second quarter.
- Bottom left: King is inexplicably left in man coverage on Scotty Miller at the very end of the first half and it ends quite poorly.
- Bottom right: King commits a pass interference on Tyler Johnson that extends Tampa Bay’s final drive and sends Tom Brady to his 10th Super Bowl.
That final play was not without controversy. Fans on both sides had strong reactions. Let’s take a closer look.