The Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals have dropped their first injury reports of the week, but the Cardinals’ side should be taken with a grain of salt. Apparently, Arizona only had a walkthrough
on Wednesday, rather than a typical full practice, despite coming off a Sunday game. The Cardinals also have a bye week next week, so this is certainly odd.
On the Packers’ end of things, the non-participants in practice today were right tackle Zach Tom (oblique/back), defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt (knee), defensive end Lukas Van Ness (foot) and kicker Brandon McManus (quad). Tom was able to finish out last week’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, but Wyatt and McManus both missed the game and Van Ness was carted to the locker room with his injury.
Limited participants in practice were running back Josh Jacobs (illness), receiver Christian Watson (knee), receiver Dontayvion Wicks (ankle), left guard Aaron Banks (groin/knee), right guard Jordan Morgan (knee), offensive lineman Anthony Belton (ankle) and offensive lineman Jacob Monk (hamstring). Belton returned to practice this week, a good sign in his progress, while Wicks, who dropped out against the Bengals, didn’t miss practice. Those should be viewed as positives.
As a reminder, both Watson and Monk are in the second week of their 21-day practice window and are not members of the 53-man roster yet. It’s also worth mentioning here that safety Javon Bullard, who left the Bengals game after being evaluated with a concussion, was a full go. Earlier in the week, head coach Matt LaFleur described Bullard’s injury as a stinger. Left tackle Rasheed Walker, who missed Thursday’s practice entirely last week, also doesn’t appear on the injury report anymore. See, all injury news isn’t bad!
You can’t glean much from the Cardinals’ injury report, because it’s just an estimation of a full practice since they decided to call a walkthrough on Wednesday, but the team’s only estimated non-participants due to injury were running back Emari Demercado (ankle) and receiver Zay Jones (knee). Quarterback Kyler Murray (foot) and receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. (concussion) were both listed as limited participants on their estimation.
Keep an eye out for news on those two on Thursday, as they are the biggest injuries that Arizona is dealing with right now. If Murray can’t go, it’ll be Jacoby Brissett, who threw for 320 yards against a banged-up Indianapolis Colts last week, under center for the Cardinals.
In other injury news that won’t show up on the injury report, Arizona opened up the practice window for first-round rookie defensive tackle Walter Nolen (calf) today and promoted former Packers tight end Josiah Deguara to their 53-man roster after placing tight end Travis Vokolek on the injured reserve.
