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The Green Bay offense couldn’t buy a break in the team’s competitive two-minute drill period.
The Green Bay Packers had their second practice of training camp on Thursday, and the defense thoroughly dominated the offense after the offense’s “win” in the opening practice. Let’s get into the details.
There were no significant changes in participation today. Running back Amar Johnson (hamstring), receiver Christian Watson (knee), offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins (back), offensive lineman John Williams (back), defensive end Collin Oliver (hamstring) and linebacker Quay Walker (ankle) remain out of practice. Walker has officially been activated from the physically unable to perform list, a hint he’s getting close to a return from his offseason ankle surgery. Yesterday, general manager Brian Gutekunst said that Walker is probably a week from participating in practice.
Johnson and Jenkins are on the non-football injury list, meaning that they got hurt outside of the team facilities, while Watson, Williams and Oliver were on the physically unable to perform list.
According to Packer Report’s Andy Herman, the offensive skill players who practiced with the first-team unit today were quarterbacks Jordan Love and Malik Willis, running backs Josh Jacobs and Chris Brooks, receivers Savion Williams, Romeo Doubs, Dontayvion Wicks, Jayden Reed and Malik Heath and tight ends Tucker Kraft, Luke Musgrave and Ben Sims. The offensive line, from left to right, was Rasheed Walker, Aaron Banks, Sean Rhyan, Jordan Morgan and Zach Tom.
Yesterday was the first practice we’ve seen this summer where Morgan, who Gutekunst said was in an open competition for the starting left tackle job with Walker, was at right guard for an extended period of time. Before training camp, most of the snaps at center and right guard have come from a rotation of Rhyan and second-year draft pick Jacob Monk. At least as of now, Rhyan has an edge over Monk at the center position. Keep in mind, though, the offensive line will shake up again when Jenkins returns to practice. Rhyan and Morgan rotated at right guard during the last regular season, until Morgan’s shoulder injury became unmanageable and led to him being placed on the injured reserve in November.
At one point in practice, Banks, the Packers’ high-priced free-agent signing this offseason, dropped out due to injury. There have been no updates on his status, but he was replaced by Travis Glover, not Monk, at left guard.
Despite the offense’s success in the first practice of training camp, the defense got the best of them in competitive periods. We’ll get into that more later.
Defensively, the first-team unit was made up of defensive ends Rashan Gary, Lukas Van Ness and Benton Cox, defensive tackles Devonte Wyatt, Kenny Clark and Karl Brooks, linebackers Edgerrin Cooper, Isaiah McDuffie and Isaiah Simmons, cornerbacks Keisean Nixon, Nate Hobbs and Carrington Valentine and safeties Xavier McKinney, Evan Williams and Jonathan Bullard.
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