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Thursday is the final day of minicamp for the Green Bay Packers, who have another week of Organized Training Activities left in the offseason program. However, head coach Matt LaFleur has decided to give his veterans a break this spring, sending them home a week early for the summer.
Ahead of Thursday’s practice, LaFleur spoke to the media and informed them that only the team’s rookies will be required to stay in Green Bay through next week. Veterans will instead be dismissed for the summer following today’s practice, having gone through just two weeks of OTA practices plus minicamp. It’s a new approach for LaFleur’s Packers, but so is scheduling minicamp for the second-to-last week of the program instead of the final week.
This may have to do with the spring program stretching farther into June than usual. With the NFL’s season starting later in 2026, training camps are likely to be pushed back a bit later, but that also means that spring practices can go all the way through June 19. Hopefully that extra week off for Green Bay’s veterans finds them further refreshed and ready to go when training camp does begin.
That date will come just under seven weeks from today. LaFleur also informed the media in attendance that the report date for veterans to show up for training camp will be Tuesday, July 28, with the team’s first practice of camp coming the following day on July 29. These dates fit nicely with the team’s Shareholders Meeting, which was recently announced to be taking place on Monday, July 27.
The Packers have not yet revealed a training camp practice schedule, only announcing that the annual Family Night event will take place on Friday, August 7. However, expect most of the team’s open practices to come during the first two weeks of camp, as the team has road preseason games scheduled for August 13 (at Pittsburgh) and August 21 (at Denver) before returning home for their exhibition finale. The final week of the preseason will feature joint practices with the Arizona Cardinals, coached by LaFleur’s brother Mike, before the two teams face off in the last game of the summer on August 28.
