Before Thursday’s practice, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said part of why the team had only a jog-through instead of a full practice on Wednesday was the number of players banged up on the roster. The good news? The team had a full practice on Thursday.
The only change in the Packers’ participation today was that kicker Trey Smack, who was estimated to be a limited participant on Wednesday, was a full participant on Thursday.
Here were all the players who were non-participants today:
- S Javon Bullard (ankle/knee)
- LB Zaire Franklin (shin)
- RB Josh Jacobs (finger)
- C Sean Rhyan (ankle)
- EDGE Lukas Van Ness (back)
- TE Josh Whyle (concussion)
LaFleur
said that Jacobs hasn’t had his surgery on his right ring finger yet. He also stated that defensive lineman Warren Brinson, currently on the injured reserve, is about five weeks out from his calf surgery.
If the Packers are down just those six players from their 53-man roster, they’ll only have 47 spots filled for the 48-man game-day roster on Sunday. That’s assuming that the team does some weird stuff with their roster, too, like keeping 10 offensive linemen on the game-day roster.
My guess? They think a couple of these non-participants are going to be able to go. If not, the Packers are going to need to shut down players via the injured reserve just to piece together a game-day roster with practice squad call-ups this week.
Safety Javon Bullard is already adamant that he’s going to be playing on Sunday. He, along with Lukas Van Ness, was able to finish the game against the New England Patriots last week, despite not participating in the last two practices for the Packers.
The following players were limited participants today:
- LG Aaron Banks (knee/hip)
- RB Chris Brooks (ankle-IR)
- OL Travis Glover (knee)
- LB Ty’Ron Hopper (illness)
- WR Skyy Moore (ankle-IR)
- ED Micah Parsons (knee/illness-PUP)
- WR Savion Williams (groin)
- OL Kevin Zeitler (ankle/triceps)
In total, 11 players were either non-participants or limited on Thursday, not including the 14 players already on the team’s injured reserve or physically unable to perform lists. The bye week is going to be much needed.
