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The Green Bay Packers worked out six players on Tuesday, their off day this week, following three moves on their practice squad. The Packers have an open roster spot on their 17-man practice squad right now, but the assumption I’m working with is that the team will attempt to re-sign receiver Will Sheppard, who the team waived on Monday, after passing through waivers.
Still, there is the possibility that Green Bay will swap out current members of the practice squad for potential outside signings, even if they do bring back Sheppard. Keep that in mind.
Below are the six players that Green Bay brought in:
Barnhart is a guard who began his career as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Chargers after spending his college career at Michigan. With the Wolverines, Barnhart was named a second-team All-Big Ten player as a senior, the year that Michigan won the national championship. He also has experience at tackle, but at under 6’5”, he’s likely to be a guard-only at the NFL level.
Barnhart made the Chargers’ practice squad in 2024 and 2025, under his former college head coach Jim Harbaugh, but was quickly released in 2025. Since then, he’s spent time with both the Denver Broncos’ and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ practice squads. Last week, he was released from Tampa Bay after spending over two weeks there.
This is Barnhart’s second workout since his release from the Buccaneers, first making a stop with the Tennessee Titans.
Etienne bounced around everywhere in college. The New Orleans native originally committed to Ole Miss before having to go down to the junior college level due to academics. He played at Fort Scott Community College in Kansas in 2019 before transferring to Butler Community College (also in Kansas) for the 2020 season, which was canceled.
In 2021, he transferred up to the FBS level and spent two seasons at Oklahoma State, where he ended up starting as a left tackle in 2022. From there, he transfered to BYU, where he played his final two seasons of college football. He was a starting guard for the Cougars in 2023 before moving to left tackle in 2024, when he was named a first-team All-Big 12 player.
Etienne was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cincinnati Bengals, but was waived with an injury designation at the cutdown deadline. Since accepting his injury settlement in early September, he has had one other workout with an NFL team, the Tennessee Titans, two weeks ago.
Blacklock is a former second-round pick who was picked 40th overall in the 2020 draft by the Houston Texans. He hasn’t played a regular-season game since 2023, but Blacklock has 44 games, 3 starts and 918 defensive snaps under his belt at the NFL level.
As far as experience goes, Blacklock is the biggest name on the list. Since playing his last game, Blacklock was signed late in the 2024 season by...
