Real football is coming, and it’s bringing the weight of expectations with it.

As training camp dwindles to nothing, the Packers’ Week 1 matchup against the Detroit Lions looms, as do the demands of the regular season. The regular season is where players have to turn potential into action. It’s one thing to be the talk of the town when the reps are primarily against your own team and you can build a positive narrative out of things like “potential” and a few good practices. But once the game really counts, the pressure is on to actually deliver.

There are...

With the final preseason game around the corner, let’s take a look at the roster bubble players who have the most to gain or lose for the Green Bay Packers before roster cutdowns on August 26th. While we’re going to be pairing players positionally for this analysis, this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an either/or situation for the pairs. The team might end up keeping two extra defensive ends, or neither, for example.

Considering that the Packers have 13 players who are too injured to practice right now, the roster is still very fluid. The number of players who eventually go...

According to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky, Green Bay Packers fourth-round pick Barryn Sorrell has an MCL sprain, which Sorrell told Demovsky shouldn’t keep him out “more than a few weeks.” Hopefully, the rookie defensive end will be able to return to the field before the start of the regular season, as the team went out of its way to feed him plenty of special teams snaps this preseason, prior to his injury against the Indianapolis Colts.

With the way the NFL’s cutdown rules work, the Packers will only be able to place two players on the injured reserve at the cutdown...

Fringe roster players have to play on special teams. If you’ve watched NFL teams put together their rosters for any length of time, you know this is true. It’s so true that our Justis Mosqueda can put together multiple detailed guides to who does what and when on special teams and have it not be a waste of time. It’s important stuff! (Justis, this is carte blanche to continue your sicko behavior breaking down special teams tape. I promise, if nobody else is reading, I am.)

The importance of special teams contributions makes exceptions to special teams participation all the...

Just like that, the Packers are down to their last couple of training camp practices before their attention fully shifts to the regular season.

Already the work is underway for their Week 1 game against the defending NFC North champion Detroit Lions, but the team needs to tidy up some roster questions first. There’s just the pesky process of handling enough cuts and injured reserve designations to get the Packers down to their 53-man roster limit, then signing enough to guys to fill out a 16-man practice squad.

You know, simple stuff. At least with half the team injured, it...

We made our 53-man roster projection earlier this week, but after Monday’s practice, I feel like we now have the full scope of the Green Bay Packers’ entire depth chart. Let’s take you through, position-by-position, where this Packers team stands today, in terms of roster-relevant players.

We’re going to skip specialists for this one, because each position only has one player in training camp, aside from international exemption kicker Mark McNamee from Ireland.

All of the depth chart layering below has been informed by how the Packers have treated their positional rotations throughout this summer. Opinions are not added unless...

While on The Pat McAfee Show, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport shed some light on where things stand with Dallas Cowboys All-Pro pass-rusher Micah Parsons. After bringing up internet insider Rickey Scoop’s rumor that the Green Bay Packers had made a trade offer for Parsons, Rapoport stated that it would take Khalil Mack-type compensation to get Parsons from Dallas.

Back in 2018, Mack was traded from the Oakland Raiders to the Chicago Bears for two first-round picks, but the Bears made up some of that value by moving up a round in the 2020 draft (3rd to 2nd) and turning a...

As expected, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love returned to practice following surgery to the UCL on his thumb on his non-throwing hand. Love injured his thumb in the preseason opener against the New York Jets, but practiced once for the Packers after the injury before deciding to have the surgery.

Head coach Matt LaFleur said after the surgery that the hope was that Love would be able to practice this week, though his status in joint practice against the Seattle Seahawks and the preseason finale against Seattle was still up in the air. Love did throw the football today,...

The Green Bay Packers announced on Monday that they have made a pair of roster moves, in part because of safety Omar Brown’s lung injury that left him in the hands of Indianapolis doctors for several days. With Brown, Xavier McKinney and Zayne Anderson injured at safety, the Packers added 2024 fifth-round pick safety Jaylin Simpson to their roster today.

Simpson, who ran a 4.45-second 40-yard dash in the pre-draft process, was a first-team All-SEC in his final year of college at Auburn. Originally picked by the Indianapolis Colts, he was moved from his natural position of safety to cornerback...

The Green Bay Packers had a rough go in the first half of Saturday’s preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts. Part of the issue on a general level was surely due to the Packers playing few of their established starters while the Colts kept a good complement of first-team players on the field early. But one player stood out in particular for his rough performance before halftime: rookie tackle Anthony Belton.

Belton had a day to forget — or at least to learn from — on Saturday. Mental errors happened consistently, including one that took a would-be touchdown off the...

According to The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman, third-round rookie wide receiver Savion Williams has been dealing with a hamstring injury, which is why he was a non-participant in both the Green Bay Packers’ joint practice against the Indianapolis Colts and the subsequent preseason game last week. Previously, it was unclear what Williams’ injury was.

Per Sports Illustrated’s Bill Huber, Williams had offseason shoulder surgery, which is why he wore a red non-contact jersey at practice while participating in drills this spring. That was the first health issue that Williams suffered this offseason. According to the scouting combine sheet, [Williams’s reason for...

It’s been a couple of weeks, so let’s take another stab at the Green Bay Packers’ 53-man roster. We’re now armed with information from the Packers’ first two preseason games, including the depth chart rotations and individual players’ performances.

This time, instead of treating everyone as if they’ll be healthy by Week 1, we’re going to be conservative on the injury front. We’ll be adding two players to the injured reserve with the designated to return label and keep all the players currently on the physically unable to perform list right where they’re at.

In that scenario, here’s what the...