The Green Bay Packers are the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff field after coming from behind to beat the Detroit Lions in the season finale on Sunday at Ford Field.

Here are the studs and duds from the 23-20 win:

Studs

LT David Bakhtiari: The Packers left tackle is playing at an increasingly high level. The Lions simply didn’t have a player capable of threatening him off the edge in the passing game, so Bakhtiari dominated snap after snap. Aaron Rodgers was rarely bothered in the pocket and looked increasingly confident the edges would be blocked up. The play of Bakhtiari and right tackles Bryan Bulaga and Jared Veldheer made it easy for Rodgers and Matt LaFleur to keep dialing up passing plays. Bakhtiari will go into the postseason playing at an All-Pro level again.

RB Aaron Jones: He slashed and dashed and eventually wore down the Lions front over 25 carries. He just kept chipping away, gaining yards in bigger and bigger chunks, side-stepping tacklers and exploding through gaps with his patented vision and quickness. He all but put the game away on a 31-yard catch-and-run on the final drive. Getting him the ball in the passing game was a focus, and he probably should have caught 5-6 passes and scored a couple of touchdowns. Rodgers kept missing him or throwing it to him late. On one play, Jones burst upfield in the scramble drill and should have had an easy touchdown, but Rodgers overthrew it. Jones finished with 143 total yards, putting him over 1,000 rushing yards and 1,500 total yards in 2019.

WR Davante Adams: Three of his seven catches converted on third down, including a 20-yard touchdown on 3rd-and-10 with the Packers desperate for a score. He ran a picture-perfect post-corner route from the slot and was all alone in the end zone. It was a beauty. Later, he likely saved the game with a 3-yard catch against Darius Slay on 4th-and-1. He finished with 93 receiving yards and his fifth receiving touchdown of the season.

OLB Za’Darius Smith: He didn’t fill up the stat sheet, but as he’s done all year, his snaps were loaded with impact. Twice, he burst through the line as a rover and blew up running plays. It’s a way for Mike Pettine to get the best matchups for his dominant edge rusher. In the second half, Smith’s pressure ensured rookie David Blough would struggle throwing the football. He was particularly menacing on a few third downs late in the game. Every game in 2019, Smith showed up, played with maximum effort and impacted games. He’s a legitimate star.

LB Blake Martinez: He struggled again against the run, but his big plays as a rusher and in coverage helped turn the game in the second half. He beat the running back on the blitz for a sack, hurried Blough into an incompletion on third down, intercepted Blough on an errant pass over the middle and awarely took away a crosser on third down on the Lions’ last possession.

OL Lucas Patrick: It was a terrific two-day stretch for the backup Packers lineman. On Saturday, he signed a two-year extension. On Sunday, he came off the bench for an injured Corey Linsley and put up one hell of a fight against Pro Bowler Damon Harrison. Patrick isn’t big or all that athletic, but he’s such a competitor, and sometimes effort, physicality and willpower can overcome the measurables.

Duds

QB Aaron Rodgers: It was a confounding performance from No. 12. On one hand, Rodgers delivered at least 5-6 throws that few others can make. At times, his accuracy can be other-worldly, but that fact makes his misses all the more bewildering. The Packers wanted to attack the league’s worst passing defense down the field, but Rodgers and the receivers weren’t up to the task. His accuracy wasn’t good enough, especially in the first half, but the entire operation looked disjointed – a potentially troubling sign in Week 17. Many of the misses weren’t off by much and could likely be explained by something other than just poor accuracy from the quarterback. Eventually, the Packers defense gave Rodgers enough opportunities to create the comeback. His 3rd-and-10 touchdown pass to Allen Lazard was a great throw under pressure.

WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling: A consistent connection with Rodgers never developed in 2019. Valdes-Scantling caught just two of seven targets on Sunday. He dropped an easy third-down catch, gained no separation on a vertical route on another third-down attempt and then was out of position on a deep ball in the second half. A quarterback and receiver on the same page would have probably created a big play on the final deep ball. It was there. The connection wasn’t.

DL Dean Lowry: The majority of the Lions’ big runs in the first half came when they got Lowry blocked at the point of attack and allowed a lineman to get to the second level and wall off Blake Martinez. Lowry had been playing really well coming into Sunday, but the consistent physicality just wasn’t there against the Lions. The Packers need strong play by the front three because Mike Pettine so often plays light behind them. Lowry couldn’t handle the combo blocks in the first half, leading to the Lions gashing the Packers for over 170 rushing yards.