​GLENDALE, ARIZONA – OCTOBER 19: Lucas Havrisik #35 of the Green Bay Packers gets ready to kick a field goal against the Arizona Cardinals during the NFL 2025 game at State Farm Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) | Getty Images The next installment of our 2025 top plays looks at one of the most impressive individual moments of the season: when a lowly practice squad kicker turned loose the kick of his life and set a Packers record. The Packers’ kicking game has been wandering through the wilderness after Mason Crosby’s departure. Nobody has been able to stabilize their field goal and PAT operation for long, not even Brandon McManus, who steadied things for a time in 2024 before inconsistency and injury dogged him in the 2025 season.But for a brief moment, the Packers found a savior in the most unlikely place: a little-used kicker who had barely been with the Packers long enough to know where all of the meeting rooms are. His moment in the spotlight clocks in at #8 on our countdown of Green Bay’s top plays of 2025.The GameThe Packers were at the tail end of a disappointing month and a half of football when they faced the Arizona Cardinals in Week 7 of the 2025 season.Weeks 1 and 2 had been joyful romps as they welcomed Micah Parsons to the crew and handily dispatched the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders, two of the best in the NFC in 2024. But they fell on their faces in Cleveland in Week 3, tied the Cowboys in Week 4, and headed into their Week 5 bye at just 2-1-1 when a 4-0 start had seemed there for the taking.Fresh off that bye, they slogged through a 27-18 win over the Bengals that was, paradoxically, both a comfortable win and much harder than it needed to be. And with that, they lurched into Week 7, ready to take on the Cardinals, who were chugging along at 2-4 under the guidance of future Packers’ defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.The SituationEarly on, it looked like a disappointing run of Packers football was going to get even worse. The Cardinals opened the game with a long drive that only netted a field goal, but drained nearly half the first quarter. A failed fourth down conversion by the Packers in Cardinals territory scuttled their first drive, but early in the second quarter the Packers got on the board with a 31-yard field goal from Lucas Havrisik, a substitute teacher turned NFL kicker taking the place of an injured Brandon McManus.After Havrisik’s field goal, the Cardinals reeled off another lengthy drive, kicking another field goal to go up 6-3, then got the ball back after a Packers’ three-and-out with a bit more than three minutes to go in the second quarter. True to form in this game, the Packers couldn’t get off the field, and Jacoby Brissett led the Cardinals on an 11-play drive that culminated in a Trey McBride touchdown, giving Arizona a 13-3 lead.The Packers had just seven seconds of game time to respond. And after Jordan Love opened their despera