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With the Green Bay Packers’ preseason over, all of the information has been laid out ahead of roster cutdowns. For the fourth year, we’re tracking the Packers’ first-team snaps, from the preseason and Green Bay’s Family Night practice, so that you can understand where the roster is at.
You may have attached yourself to a favorite roster bubble player, but does the coaching staff, which decides these rotations, feel the same? Here’s your temperature check.
In the tables below, a cell highlighted in red means that a player didn’t suit up due to injury. A yellow cell means that a player did suit up but was injured during action. FN is for snaps on Family Night, while W1 and W3 are snaps from the preseason. As a reminder, the first-team offense didn’t play during Week 2 against the Indianapolis Colts.
We’re going to do our best to list the players in the order of the Packers’ depth chart, based on the information we’ve learned this summer.
Running Back
When healthy, the Packers’ running back rotation behind starter Josh Jacobs has gone: MarShawn Lloyd, then Chris Brooks and then Emanuel Wilson. Brooks also contributes as a blocking back, both in two-back looks and on passing downs. Lloyd is currently dealing with a hamstring injury, so we’re uncertain if he’s going to start the regular season on the injured reserve. It is worth noting that in both Week 2 and Week 3 of the preseason, when Wilson was healthy, Green Bay chose to give carries and priority snaps to Brooks before Wilson.
Wide Receiver
Dontayvion Wicks and Savion Williams have been banged up for basically all of training camp, but rookie first-round pick Matthew Golden has looked the part as an outside receiver with those ramped-up reps as their replacement. In the limited snaps that we got to see from healthy Jayden Reed this year, he was used as a slot-only player, as he was during his first two seasons in the NFL. The Packers seem to have a lot more faith in Malik Heath than Mecole Hardman offensively, especially as an outside receiver.
Slot Receiver
It’ll probably be a rotation at outside receiver, but if Dontayvion Wicks comes back from injury before Jayden Reed does, don’t be surprised if Matthew Golden is used as a slot receiver in Week 1. The Packers haven’t hesitated to play Golden in a couple of different spots, which is relatively rare for the team. As you can see, Malik Heath out-snapped Mecole Hardman 10-to-3 in the slot and 17-to-3 at all receiver positions with the first-team offense this preseason.
Tight End
The only news here is that John FitzPatrick has indeed passed Ben Sims on the depth chart, momentum he started to build in the second half of the 2024 regular season. If Sims makes the team, it’s so that he can help on special teams, where TE2 Luke Musgrave is a non-contributor. Usually, teams can count on backup tight ends to play on teams,...
