GREEN BAY – Substitute kicker Lucas Havrisik didn't just break Mason Crosby's franchise record with his 61-yard field goal in Arizona on Sunday.
He put his name atop a long list of Crosby kicks in the team record books.
Until Havrisik's record-breaking boot on the final play of the first half against the Cardinals, Crosby owned the eight of the nine longest field goals in team history. And he owned nine of nine before last year.
Crosby made his previous franchise-record 58-yard field goal at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in 2011. But during his career he also made three kicks from 57, four from 56 and one from 55. Before Crosby, no Packers kicker had made a field goal longer than 54 yards.
The only other Packers kicker to make any field goals in that 55-58 distance range is the one Havrisik is now subbing for, Brandon McManus, who joined the team last October. McManus made two 55-yarders last season and one from 56 in Week 2 of this season.
So, Crosby had the nine longest field goals in team history (58, 57x3, 56x4, 55) before McManus came along in 2024. McManus earned one of the top nine with his 56-yarder this year, pushing his and Crosby's 55-yarders into the 10th, 11th and 12th spots.
And now Havrisik has topped them all.
Which brings up other places in the team record book held by subs or backups, or lesser-knowns or short-timers as it were – players who somewhat unexpectedly left their mark in team annals and are still there in perhaps forgotten places.
None of these is a direct comparison to Havrisik, the substitute teacher turned substitute kicker, but here's a handful, in chronological order:
Maurice Harvey – A defensive back and fourth-round draft pick by Oakland in 1978, Harvey played two seasons in Denver before joining the Packers in 1981. When he came to Green Bay, he had one career interception, and then he suddenly snagged six in his first year with the Packers to tie for the team lead.
With his fifth and sixth INTs in '81, during a blowout win at New Orleans, Harvey racked up 99 INT return yards with returns of 53 and 46 yards. He didn't score on either return, but the 99 total INT return yards set a franchise record for a single game.
Two days after his big game, in a strange but fortunately not serious accident, Harvey was hit by a car while crossing Oneida St. on his way back from practice. The car was driven by a priest and Harvey happened to jump soon enough so the hood of the car clipped his ankle, flipping him over the vehicle. He escaped with minor injuries when he otherwise might've been run over.
Harvey played just 29 games for the Packers but his single-game record for INT return yards stood for 30 years, until Charlie Peprah broke it with 116 in a 2011 game at San Diego. The 99 yards was matched twice in the interim, on 99-yard INT-TDs by Tim Lewis in '84 and Aaron Rouse in '08.
Don Beebe – In a big 1996 Monday night mid-October home game against San Francisco, the Packers lost star receiver Robert Brooks to a season-ending knee injury. In stepped Beebe, a staple on Buffalo's Super Bowl teams of the early '90s who had caught only seven passes in a Packers uniform to that point.
All Beebe did was record 11 receptions for 220 yards in an overtime victory. The 220 yards still ranks third in team history for a single game behind Billy Howton's 257 in '56 and Don Hutson's 237 in '43. Beebe's night included a 59-yard TD on which he made a sliding catch near the sideline, got up and ran the rest of the way to the end zone despite protestations from the 49ers that he had been touched while on the ground. But the touchdown and biggest play of the game counted.
Beebe played just 26 games for the Packers, catching 41 passes for 727 yards. No less than 30% of that yardage came in one game.
Samkon Gado – With the Packers decimated by injuries at running back in 2005, they turned to an undrafted rookie from Liberty and a Nigerian-American pre-med major to save their ground game.
Gado, who went on to become an otolaryngologist after a five-year NFL career, played in just nine games for the Packers before being traded to Houston early in the 2006 season. But in that short time in Green Bay, he recorded three 100-yard games, including a Packers rookie record 171-yard rushing performance that broke John Brockington's 34-year-old team rookie record of 149 yards in 1971. Gado's rookie mark still stands, only challenged since by Eddie Lacy's 150-yard game in 2013.
Tramon Williams – The cornerback from Louisiana Tech would eventually become one of the best undrafted stories in Packers lore. But back in 2007, he was less than a year removed from being a late-season practice-squad pickup.
He made the 53-man roster in his second season and was trying to work his way into a defensive role, with special teams his primary task at the time. He was the Packers' regular kickoff returner the first half of the '07 season, and he had returned one punt.
Until the first quarter of a mid-November home game against Carolina, when the Panthers lined up for a 52-yard field goal. Only kicker John Kasay didn't kick it. Instead, he took a direct snap and pooch-punted the ball, which checked up inside the 10-yard line.
Enter Williams, who scooped the ball up at the 6, began weaving his way through traffic and was suddenly off to the races. The 94-yard TD fell just one yard shy of the longest punt return in Packers history, a 95-yarder by Steve Odom in 1974. Williams' memorable jaunt remains tied for the second longest with Mark Lee's 94-yarder in 1981.
Matt Flynn – Anyone who saw this game will never forget it. Flynn, a 2008 seventh-round draft pick who in his first three-plus years had started just one game as Aaron Rodgers' backup, got the call in the 2011 regular-season finale against Detroit at home with the one-loss Packers already having wrapped up the NFC's No. 1 seed for the playoffs.
Flynn put on a performance for the ages, setting Packers records with 480 passing yards and six TD passes in a single game, leading Green Bay to a 45-41 victory to close a 15-1 regular season. At the time, the 480 yards were 62 more than a Packers QB had ever thrown for in a game, beating Lynn Dickey's previous team record of 418 against Tampa Bay in 1980.
Rodgers eventually matched Flynn's 480 yards in a 2013 game vs. Washington, and he matched the six TD passes twice, in a 2012 game at Houston and a 2014 contest vs. the Bears. But Flynn's marks are still there, yet to be surpassed.
