The Green Bay Packers have been, to say the least, a mixed bag. Sitting half a game below .500 at 4-5-1, the Packers have yet to win a single game on the road this season, losing all 5 attempts they've taken a swing at.

Yet, as difficult a situation as the Packers find themselves in, especially as losers of 3 of their last 4 games, they have found success, especially in a man named Aaron, though not the Aaron that you're probably thinking of.

That's right, I'm talking about Aaron Jones, not Aaron Rodgers.

Which is over course, not to say that Aaron Rodgers is all of a sudden bad. To the contrary, he's still playing quite fine this season, though his completion percentage is a tad down from his lifetime average. He has a 19:1 touchdown-to-interception ratio and over 3,000 yards passing, after all.

But in Aaron Jones, the Packers have found the special sort of bell cow back they haven't had since Eddie Lacy's heyday. Jones' 145 yards on 15 carries (an average of 9.7 yards per carry) against the Dolphins on November 11^th can attest to that. And even though he only managed 40 yards rushing against the Seahawks on November 15^th, he still caught five balls for 63 yards through the air. Oh, and scored two touchdowns too. In both games.

In short, it's not hard to see that Aaron Jones is quite a weapon, just as many suspected he would be after witnessing what he could do towards the end of last season. If anything, he's even more lethal than everyone thought. Now a second-year, it stands to reason that Jones should be dominating the Packers backfield.

Unfortunately, per Mike McCarthy's orders, he hasn't. Deemed not a good enough blocker by Green Bay's head coach, Jones has been a part of a timeshare with fellow sophomore Jamaal Williams and Ty Montgomery.

Or rather, he had been.

Thanks to Ty Montgomery's costly fumble against the Rams and Williams' paltry 3.7 yards per carry, Jones has in actuality come into his own as the go-to running back for the Packers. His 26 carries total against the Dolphins and Seahawks confirm that.

What's more, team statistics back Jones up. Per Michael Salfino at 538, the Packers are last in the NFL in the number of run plays they use on first down, but number two in the league when it comes to finding success on those plays. Only the Rams, with the big, bruising, league-renowned Todd Gurley, do better.

Now, that's not to say that Aaron Jones is Todd Gurley, but he is a very good back. And with an All-Star, Hall of Fame quarterback like Aaron Rodgers backing him up, he's even better. After all, who wants to stack the box and commit to defending against the run when Aaron Rodgers is standing there to burn the secondary?

The Packers have been struggling as of late. Of that, there's no secret. And while Mike McCarthy has made a number of suspect decisions in dealing strategically with his team this season (punting on 4th-and-2 against the Seahawks chief among them) the choice with Aaron Jones is clear.

The Packers need to win football games. And multifaceted though the game may be, Aaron Jones is the way to do that.