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Primary Mark<br />
VETERANS<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
COACHES<br />
DRIVER<br />
LAMBEAU RECORDS &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
MISC. FIELD HISTORY 2008 REVIEW FREE AGENTS<br />
A true pro who continues<br />
to perform at a<br />
high level at age 34…<br />
Three-time Pro Bowl selection enters the 2009 campaign<br />
needing just 19 catches to surpass Sterling Sharpe (595)<br />
for the team record for career receptions…With 7,989<br />
PRO<br />
career<br />
receiving yards, trails just Don Hutson<br />
(7,991), Sharpe (8,134) and James Lofton<br />
(9,656) in franchise annals…Sits atop the<br />
Lambeau Field record book for receptions<br />
and receiving yardage…Became all-time leader in receiving<br />
yards at Lambeau in 2008 with 24-yard grab in Week<br />
7 vs. Indianapolis, surpassing Antonio Freeman’s record of<br />
3,477, and currently has 3,823...Surpassed Freeman (213)<br />
in ’07 in Week 3 for the stadium record for receptions, and<br />
currently has 273 catches at Lambeau…Enters season with<br />
a streak of 111 games with at least one reception (116 including<br />
postseason), the longest streak in franchise history<br />
after surpassing Sharpe’s team record of 103 in Week 9 at<br />
Tennessee last season…Set a team record in 2008 with his<br />
sixth 1,000-yard season, surpassing Sharpe and Lofton,<br />
and extended his franchise record with his fifth straight…<br />
Joins Indianapolis’ Reggie Wayne as the only receivers in<br />
the league to have five consecutive 1,000-yard seasons<br />
from 2004-08…Teamed with Greg Jennings in ’08 as each<br />
went over the 1,000-yard receiving mark, only the fourth<br />
time in team history that a receiving duo ac<strong>com</strong>plished that<br />
feat; Driver and teammate Javon Walker each topped 1,000<br />
yards in ’04…Has caught 50 or more passes in a season<br />
seven times, matching Lofton and Sharpe for the team record…Surpassed<br />
70 receptions in ’08 for the fifth straight<br />
season…Posted six receptions of 40-plus yards in 2008,<br />
a career high…Is tied for sixth in franchise history with<br />
Billy Howton with 43 TD receptions; 36 of those came from<br />
Brett Favre, putting Favre and Driver third among Green Bay<br />
touchdown <strong>com</strong>binations…Needs four more TD catches<br />
to equal No. 3 Hutson on the team’s all-time list…With<br />
touchdown grab vs. Atlanta in Week 5 in ’08, became only<br />
the eighth player in team history to reach 40 career, joining<br />
Hutson (99), Sharpe (65), Freeman (57), Max McGee<br />
(50), Lofton (49), Howton (43) and Boyd Dowler (40)…<br />
Has 20 career 100-yard games, which ties him with Freeman<br />
for fourth in team history…Despite catching only two<br />
touchdowns in ’07, was duly recognized by NFC players and<br />
coaches as one of the conference’s top wideouts and earned<br />
his third Pro Bowl trip (2002 and 2006 were the others)…<br />
Set personal highs in receptions and yards three straight<br />
years beginning in 2004, putting up 92 catches for 1,295<br />
yards in 2006 to earn a second Pro Bowl appearance…<br />
Those totals ranked third and second in the NFC, respectively;<br />
both were fifth in the <strong>NFL</strong> in 2006, and his career-high<br />
191-yard performance at Minnesota (Nov. 12) was the best<br />
single-game total by an NFC receiver on the season.<br />
W<br />
DONALD<br />
DRIVER<br />
WIDE RECEIVER<br />
ALCORN STATE<br />
PRO BOWLS: 3<br />
2002, 2006, 2007<br />
ants to play until he’s 40, and he just may do<br />
that with the tremendous care he takes of his<br />
body…Sets an example for the team’s younger<br />
►►Ranks second on the franchise’s<br />
all-time list for receptions with<br />
577; needs just 19 to pass<br />
Sterling Sharpe for first at 595.<br />
►►Set franchise record in 2008<br />
with his sixth 1,000-yard<br />
season, and extended his team<br />
record with his fifth straight. at a glance…<br />
Indianapolis’ Reggie Wayne is<br />
the only other player in the <strong>NFL</strong> to have a 1,000-yard season<br />
each of the last five years (2004-08).<br />
►►Enters ’09 with a streak of 111 games with at least one<br />
reception (116 including postseason), the longest streak in<br />
franchise history.<br />
►►All-time leader in receptions (273) and yards (3,823) at<br />
Lambeau Field.<br />
►►With 7,989 receiving yards in his career, is one of only four<br />
players in franchise history to surpass the 7,000-yard mark,<br />
joining Don Hutson (7,991), Sharpe (8,134) and James<br />
Lofton (9,656).<br />
►►One of the <strong>NFL</strong>’s most decorated collegiate track athletes<br />
(high jump, decathlon, long jump, triple jump), won his<br />
conference’s ‘Athlete of the Year’ award three straight years.<br />
Likely could have qualified for 2000 Sydney Olympics in high<br />
jump had he concentrated on track.<br />
►►Over<strong>com</strong>ing countless obstacles growing up has inspired<br />
him to be<strong>com</strong>e one of the team’s most involved players in<br />
giving back to the <strong>com</strong>munity. In 2000, he and his wife created<br />
the Donald Driver Foundation (www.donalddriverfoundation.<strong>com</strong>),<br />
which offers assistance to homeless mothers<br />
and underprivileged children as well as scholarships to high<br />
school students in three states. In addition, has made more<br />
than 500 appearances since 1999, from schools to youth<br />
football fields to churches, delivering motivational speeches<br />
or offering assistance.<br />
with his athleticism as a former college track standout and<br />
one-time Olympic hopeful, makes him a threat no matter<br />
where he lines up on the field…His 82-yard catch-and-run<br />
at Minnesota in 2006 gave him three career TD receptions<br />
of 80 or more yards (not including playoffs), tying a Packers<br />
record held by Howton (two in 1952, one in 1953) and<br />
Carroll Dale (1966, 1967, 1970)…Stepped forward in 2005<br />
when injuries decimated the Packers at the skill positions<br />
and was the team’s lone reliable playmaker for the duration<br />
of the season, earning the team’s Most Valuable Player<br />
award for the second time (also 2002)…In 2004, teamed<br />
with Walker to register the Packers’ best season by a receiving<br />
duo in both <strong>com</strong>bined receptions (173) and <strong>com</strong>bined<br />
receiving yards (2,590); yardage total ranked second<br />
in the <strong>NFL</strong> that year behind the Rams’ Torry Holt and Isaac<br />
Bruce (2,664)…In 2003, became the first player since Don<br />
Majkowski (10th round, 1987-92) drafted by the Packers<br />
in the seventh round or later to play five seasons in Green<br />
Bay…In 2002, was named to the Pro Bowl and became<br />
the lowest-drafted Packers Pro Bowler in 19 years…Broke<br />
through as the team’s No. 3 receiver for much of 2000,<br />
when he replaced an injured Corey Bradford…Though a<br />
low-round draft choice in 1999, initially had carved out a<br />
roster spot by regularly making phenomenal receptions in<br />
first training camp…Enjoyed decorated collegiate track career,<br />
demonstrating his athleticism with world-class skills<br />
receivers, both on the field and off, of what it takes to be<br />
successful, and credits predecessors Freeman and Robert<br />
Brooks for helping him develop his leadership skills…His<br />
knowledge of the West Coast offensive system, <strong>com</strong>bined in the high jump, reaching 7 feet, 6½ inches.<br />
116 25<br />
Ht: 6-0 Wt: 194<br />
11th <strong>NFL</strong> Season<br />
11th Packers Season<br />
Born: February 2, 1975<br />
<strong>NFL</strong> Gm. Played/Started: 145/108<br />
Acquired: D7b-99
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