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There are two certainties in an NFL season.
The first is that attrition will take its toll at some point. No team makes it through a year unscathed. Sooner or later, someone, very likely more than one someone, will go down. It’s a fact of life. People get hurt playing professional football.
The second is this: if you don’t figure out a way to replace those players, and quickly, your season will go down with them. This is what sinks most contending teams, even more than their fate in the playoffs. The NFL’s ultimate prize is determined as often as not by who can weather their injuries with internal or external replacements.
We’ve seen the first certainty play out in Green Bay already this year. Tucker Kraft is an increasingly distant memory, and Devonte Wyatt recently joined him on the shelf. Both will be out for the rest of the season, and the extent to which the Packers can handle those absences will probably tell the tale of the season. Nobody’s really going to replace Kraft, though the Packers have tried to make do with a combination of offensive lineman Darian Kinnard and an assortment of spare parts. It’s an open question as to whether or not the Packers have enough spare parts to adequately fill in for Wyatt.
But that’s what’s in front of the Packers. The NFC’s top seed is there for the taking. How the Packers handle their attrition will go a long way toward determining if they get it.
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