Green Bay Packers have been without their starting quarterback before, but not often. Here's how it went.

Brett Favre famously started an unprecedented 297 NFL football games in a row, and though Aaron Rodgers has experienced major injury, Sunday could mark the first time in the Matt LaFleur era that a backup quarterback starts for the Green Bay Packers .

It doesn't happen often that the Packers find themselves without their No. 1 option under center. But with Jordan Love sustaining a knee injury in the final moments of Green Bay's season opener against Philadelphia , LaFleur said Monday the team will turn to Malik Willis , with Sean Clifford as Willis' backup, if Love is unable to play against the Indianapolis Colts.

When the Packers have encountered this situation before, the results haven't always been terrible, but it's naturally a bit of a mixed bag.

Here are the moments the Packers have been forced to turn to Plan B at quarterback in recent history … and how it went:

The 2017 season (Brett Hundley)

Packers without Aaron Rodgers: 3-6

The Packers were out to a 4-1 start when disaster struck in the sixth game at Minnesota, when Rodgers was tackled by Minnesota's Anthony Barr and fractured his collarbone.

Brett Hundley finished that game and threw three interceptions while taking four sacks. It was the first of three straight losses and five out of six with Hundley under center.

The Packers, however, barely scraped by two last-place opponents for back-to-back wins in December, a 26-20 overtime win over Tampa Bay and a 27-21 overtime win over Cleveland, a team that ultimately finished the year winless. Hundley completed a 25-yard pass to Davante Adams for the clinching score in the latter game. Could the Packers potentially pull of a miracle run like they did in 2013 without Rodgers?

With Green Bay still alive for a playoff spot, Rodgers was able to return in Week 15, having missed seven full games and most of eight. But he wasn't 100%, and when Green Bay lost to Carolina, 31-24, and found itself eliminated from postseason contention, Rodgers returned to the sideline for the final two weeks of the season, both losses.

Hundley, a fifth-round draft pick in 2015, never found his footing in the NFL. He last appeared in three games for Arizona in 2019.

The 2013 season (Seneca Wallace, Scott Tolzien, Matt Flynn)

Packers without Aaron Rodgers: 2-4-1

Is it a stretch to call the 2013 season a miracle ?

It was Nov. 4, 2013, when Rodgers was taken to the turf by Chicago Bears defensive end Shea McClellin, suffering a collarbone fracture that would wind up costing him most of that game and all of seven more.

For the first time in a generation, Packers fans were about to see their team playing an extended period without their starter.

First up to take his place was veteran backup Seneca Wallace, but after he finished the Bears game in Week 9, he was lost for the year early in the Week 10 game against Philadelphia with a groin injury.

That brought former Badgers quarterback Scott Tolzien to the fore, although the Packers also signed an old friend in former Rodgers backup Matt Flynn once Wallace went out. Tolzien started the next two games but wasn't effective, and Green Bay then gave Flynn a shot.

A 40-10 blowout loss in Detroit proved an ominous first game. But then the Packers won absolute stunners over Atlanta (22-21) and Dallas (37-36), rallying from a 26-3 halftime deficit on the road in the latter contest, with Flynn throwing three touchdowns in the second half and Eddie Lacy finishing with 141 yars rushing.

That kept Green Bay's precarious hopes alive to win the NFC North without a dominant challenger seizing the reins. After an inconsequential loss to Pittsburgh on Dec. 22, Green Bay went to Soldier Field for a winner-take-all North battle against the Bears.

Rodgers returned, as did Randall Cobb, after missing 10 games of his own with injury. They connected on a memorable 48-yard touchdown with 38 seconds left that vaulted the Packers to a 33-28 win and, somehow, a division title with an 8-7-1 record, while the Bears finished 8-8.

Green Bay fell to San Francisco in the first round of the playoffs with Rodgers under center, but even getting to that point was nearly incomprehensible.

Single-game moments to remember

Nov. 7, 2021, at Kansas City (Jordan Love)

Before Jordan Love became the full-time starter, he was a second-year understudy who got pressed into action against the host Kansas City Chiefs. Aaron Rodgers had tested positive for COVID-19, and the revelation that he would miss the game turned into a de facto announcement that he was not vaccinated according to league standards , running contrary to what he'd previously told reporters.

As that scandal raged on, Love attempted to make his first NFL start. It wasn't an utter disaster on paper in a 13-7 loss, and Love threw his first career touchdown. He also, however, threw his first interception, completed 19 of 34 passes for 190 yards and clocked in with a quarterback rating of 69.5. Also, his mom and then-girlfriend were famously relegated to the back row of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.

The Chiefs went on to finish 12-5 and reached the AFC championship game. Rodgers returned the following week for the Packers, who finished 13-4 but lost to San Francisco in the divisional round.

Jan. 1, 2012, vs. Detroit (Matt Flynn)

This absence was by design, with the Packers having clinched homefield advantage with a dazzling 14-1 performance in a follow-up to the 2010 Super Bowl victory. Rodgers was rested for the season finale against Detroit.

Flynn, in his first go-round with the Packers before signing a lucrative offseason deal in Seattle — one that never got off the ground because of a draft pick named Russell Wilson — was spectacular.

He threw for a franchise-record six touchdown passes (since matched by Rodgers) and 480 yards in the thrilling 45-41 win. Detroit's Matthew Stafford threw for 520 yards and five touchdowns of his own, but Sam Shields intercepted Stafford with 33 seconds to go at the Green Bay 20-yard line.

It was a fantastic grace note on a 15-1 season, although the season had an unhappy ending with a divisional-round exit against the New York Giants.

Dec. 19, 2010, at New England (Matt Flynn)

Flynn's first chance to start for Green Bay went well, even in defeat. He completed 24 of 37 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns against the vaunted New England Patriots, a 31-27 defeat at Gillette Stadium.

Rodgers had been lost to a concussion sustained the week before. Green Bay reached the 15-yard line in the final moments on "Sunday Night Football," but Flynn was sacked on fourth-and-1.

Rodgers, of course, came back the following week, and the Packers went on to win the Super Bowl.

Nov. 29, 2007, at Dallas (Aaron Rodgers)

This one shouldn't really count, since Brett Favre did start this game. But it's a memorable entrant in the Rodgers story, filling in for Favre in Dallas after the ironman had been knocked from the game with a forearm injury in the second quarter. While everyone panicked about Favre's injury, Rodgers gave Packers nation the first glimpse of what he could bring to the table, and a dose of hope that the risky gambit to select Rodgers in the 2005 draft wasn't in vain.

Rodgers finished 18-of-26 for 201 yards, an impressive performance as the understudy pressed into duty. It's entirely feasible that the performance was good enough to convince the franchise that Rodgers could handle the job , and Green Bay moved on from Favre after the season, though not before he returned the next week and led them to the NFC championship game in 2007.

Sept. 20, 1992, vs. Cincinnati (Brett Favre)

Favre was still the backup early in the 1992 season, though it quickly became clear that he deserved the starting job once he was given the keys. But it was Don Majkowski's show for the first three weeks, although Favre did see time in Week 2 during a lopsided loss to Tampa Bay.

But his status changed after Majkowski's ankle injury against Cincinnati in Week 3. And in the perfect teaser for the career to follow, Favre engineered a game-winning drive, starting at the 8-yard line with 1:07 to go. He hit Sterling Sharpe for 42 yards during the sequence, and lofted a memorable pass to Kitrick Taylor for what became the winning touchdown. The next week began his 297-start streak.

Dec. 26, 1965, vs. Baltimore (Zeke Bratkowski)

Again, this wasn't a start for Bratkowski, but it became the most memorable performance of his celebrated career as Bart Starr's backup quarterback.

Playing Baltimore for the Western Conference title, Bratkowski completed 22 of 39 passes, and the Packers prevailed in overtime against the Baltimore Colts, 13-10, buying time for Starr to return and guide the Packers past Cleveland the next week for the NFL title.

Though that was the only playoff game in which Bratkowski saw singificant action, he was a good-luck charm during the franchise's three-year run of championships from 1965 through 1967. The Packers were 8-1 in games, including postseason, in which Bratkowski either started or replaced Starr with the score tied or the Packers trailing by seven points or fewer.

Throughout his Packers career, he started nine regular-season games total, going 4-4-1.

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