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Primary Mark<br />
VETERANS<br />
A true technician and<br />
consummate pro, will<br />
face one of the biggest<br />
challenges of his career in switching from his customary<br />
defensive end spot to outside linebacker in the Packers’<br />
new 3-4 defensive scheme…The position is one he played,<br />
PRO<br />
career<br />
albeit in a different scheme, his first two<br />
seasons at the University of Iowa before<br />
switching to the defensive line, where he<br />
has fashioned a pro career that has evolved<br />
from dependable, every-down player into an elite, gamechanging<br />
performer…Over the past three seasons, has<br />
racked up 37 sacks, third most in the league over that span<br />
behind Dallas’ DeMarcus Ware (45½) and Minnesota’s Jared<br />
Allen (37½)…In 2008, just missed his third consecutive<br />
season of double-digit sacks by one-half sack, eclipsed the<br />
85-tackle total for the fourth straight year, and was named a<br />
Pro Bowl alternate after two straight appearances in Hawaii<br />
in 2006-07…Has posted multiple sacks in 12 games the<br />
last three years and now has 50½ career sacks, good for<br />
fourth all-time in Packers history and just 4½ behind No. 3<br />
Tim Harris…Also named second-team All-Pro by The Associated<br />
Press each of his Pro Bowl years, plus earned All-<br />
NFC honors from Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers<br />
Association in 2006…That year, his first with a new contract<br />
extension, proved to be his breakout season, as he led<br />
the NFC and finished second in the <strong>NFL</strong> with 15½ sacks and<br />
set a franchise record for tackles by a defensive lineman<br />
with 113, breaking Ezra Johnson’s mark of 107 in 1983…<br />
The sack total more than doubled his previous career high<br />
of 6½ and was the third-highest single-season total in team<br />
history, which finally allowed him to shake the label of a<br />
try-hard overachiever that came with him as a 2002 fifthround<br />
draft choice out of Iowa…Anchored the left side of<br />
the Packers’ line most of the last six years, posting career<br />
totals of 537 tackles (354 solo), 50½ sacks, 11 passes defensed,<br />
12 forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in<br />
103 career games, sacking 29 different quarterbacks…Has<br />
started 89 of the past 90 games, missing only the 2007<br />
regular-season finale vs. Detroit when the coaching staff<br />
decided to rest selected veterans for the playoffs…Earned<br />
a four-year contract extension prior to 2006 with a solid<br />
2005 season, when he posted then-career highs with 105<br />
tackles and 6½ sacks…His ’05 tackle total was second<br />
best among defensive lineman in the <strong>NFL</strong>, behind current<br />
teammate Ryan Pickett (115 with St. Louis), tops among<br />
defensive ends, and just shy of Johnson’s team record<br />
by a defensive lineman that he surpassed in 2006…Followed<br />
up a successful rookie campaign by taking over at<br />
the left defensive end spot six weeks into 2003 after Joe<br />
Johnson suffered a season-ending quadriceps injury…As a<br />
restricted free agent after the 2004 season, the rival Vikings<br />
signed him to an offer sheet, but Green Bay exercised its<br />
right of first refusal to retain him and he re-signed with the<br />
Packers on April 21, 2005…Prior to officially be<strong>com</strong>ing an<br />
unrestricted free agent, signed a four-year extension with<br />
the Packers on March 10, 2006.<br />
2008 season<br />
AARON<br />
KAMPMAN<br />
LINEBACKER<br />
IOWA<br />
PRO BOWLS: 2<br />
2006, 2007<br />
Started all 16 games for the fourth<br />
time in the past five seasons and<br />
led the defensive line with 87 tackles (65 solo)…Ranked<br />
173 25<br />
Ht: 6-4 Wt: 260<br />
Eighth <strong>NFL</strong> Season<br />
Eighth Packers Season<br />
Born: November 30, 1979<br />
<strong>NFL</strong> Gm. Played/Started: 103/95<br />
Acquired: D5a-02<br />
►►Name is pronounced CAMP-man.<br />
►►In the Packers’ new 3-4 defensive<br />
scheme, will be switching<br />
from defensive end to outside<br />
linebacker, the position he<br />
played his first two years at the<br />
University of Iowa before moving<br />
to the defensive line. at a glance…<br />
►►Has 37 sacks over the last three<br />
seasons, third most in the <strong>NFL</strong> over that span behind Dallas’<br />
DeMarcus Ware (45½) and Minnesota’s Jared Allen (37½)<br />
►►His 50½ career sacks rank fourth in Packers’ history, 4½<br />
behind No. 3 Tim Harris.<br />
►►Has started 89 of the last 90 games, missing only the 2007<br />
regular-season finale vs. Detroit when several starters rested<br />
for the playoffs.<br />
►►Went to two consecutive Pro Bowls following 2006-07 seasons<br />
and was named second-team All-Pro both years by The<br />
Associated Press.<br />
►►Led the NFC and was second in the <strong>NFL</strong> with 15½ sacks in<br />
2006, the third-highest single-season total in team history.<br />
►►Posted 113 tackles in 2006, a franchise record for a Packers<br />
defensive lineman, surpassing the 107 by Ezra Johnson in<br />
1983, a total he nearly eclipsed in 2005 with 105 tackles.<br />
►►Returned to his high school, Aplington-Parkersburg (Iowa),<br />
to give the team a pre-game pep talk prior to their first 2008<br />
game after the school had been destroyed in a tornado in<br />
May. The school also has produced fellow <strong>NFL</strong> players Casey<br />
Wiegmann, Jared DeVries and Brad Meester.<br />
seventh in the NFC and 13th in the <strong>NFL</strong> with 9½ sacks, and<br />
was named a Pro Bowl alternate...On the field for 998-of-<br />
1,050 (95.1 percent) defensive plays, most among team’s<br />
defensive linemen and the second most on the team, and<br />
was voted for a second time to USA Today’s ‘All-Joe Team’,<br />
which recognizes valuable contributors for their unheralded<br />
play…Vs. Minnesota (Sept. 8): Passed Johnson to<br />
move to No. 4 on the franchise’s all-time sacks list when<br />
he brought down QB Tarvaris Jackson for a 10-yard loss<br />
on 3rd-and-6 in the first quarter...At Detroit (Sept. 14):<br />
Posted 1½ sacks of QB Jon Kitna in the second quarter, the<br />
second one shared with Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila...Vs. Dallas<br />
(Sept. 21): Tallied 1½ sacks for the second straight game,<br />
bringing down QB Tony Romo solo in the first quarter and<br />
with help from Cullen Jenkins in the second…At Seattle<br />
(Oct. 12): Led defensive line with six tackles and had two<br />
sacks of QB Charlie Frye, one each in the second and third<br />
quarters, the latter on third down to force a Seattle punt…<br />
At Tennessee (Nov. 2): Batted down a Kerry Collins<br />
pass intended for TE Bo Scaife in the second quarter...At<br />
Minnesota (Nov. 9): Recorded season-high 10 tackles<br />
and 1½ sacks, bringing down QB Gus Frerotte in the second<br />
quarter and sharing a sack of Frerotte with former Iowa<br />
roommate Colin Cole later in the quarter for a 10-yard loss...<br />
Vs. Carolina (Nov. 30): Brought down QB Jake Delhomme<br />
twice on sacks. His second sack, in the third quarter, put<br />
him over 50 total for his career to be<strong>com</strong>e only the fourth<br />
player in franchise history to ac<strong>com</strong>plish that feat...Vs.<br />
Houston (Dec. 7): Tied for lead on the defensive line with<br />
nine tackles, one shy of season high.<br />
2007<br />
Earned his second straight Pro Bowl trip and<br />
selection to The Associated Press <strong>NFL</strong> All-Pro<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
COMMUNITY COACHES KAMPMAN FREE AGENTS<br />
2008 REVIEW HISTORY<br />
RECORDS &<br />
LAMBEAU<br />
FIELD<br />
MISC.
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