The Green Bay Packers have officially ruled out running back Josh Jacobs (knee), receiver Matthew Golden (shoulder/wrist), linebacker Quay Walker (neck) and cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee) with injuries. Jacobs and Golden were both listed as questionable on the Packers’ final injury report of the week, while Walker was given a “doubtful” status.

Along with those four players, the Packers also ruled out three players as healthy scratches: offensive lineman Donovan Jennings, linebacker Jamon Johnson and kicker Lucas Havrisik. This means that Brandon McManus will be kicking against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, after Havrisik last kicked against the New York...

Welcome to Sunday! The NFL is back in action today with a big day and some intriguing games on the schedule before the league and the American viewing public start looking ahead to Thanksgiving this Thursday. The holiday will kick off week 13 around the NFL, but today we’re dealing with 12 games on the schedule for this Week 12 Sunday.

The Green Bay Packers are in action early, starting off their division-heavy finish to the season with a home game against the Minnesota Vikings. Over on CBS, the Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs also square off early in...

NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero is reporting that Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs is not going to play against the Minnesota Vikings. Previously, Jacobs was listed as questionable on the Packers’ final injury report of the week and had been considered a game-time decision.

According to Pelissero, the Packers “decided to play it cautiously with a short week upcoming.” The team is scheduled to play on Thanksgiving versus the Detroit Lions in Week 13. Pelissero added that Jacobs didn’t even get a pregame workout in.

Without Jacobs, the starting running back should be Emanuel Wilson, who is in line...

Going up against a Brian Flores defense is a unique challenge. Not only is the Minnesota Vikings’ defensive coordinator well known as a maniacal blitzer, he seems to find new ways to blitz every week. He has been a forward-thinking coach who has driven changes in blitz strategy across the league, while also breaking those tendencies as he sees fit. In short, Flores may legitimately be a genius.

From what I’ve looked at, his defenses can be particularly effective against teams that play with a lot of condensed formations. He’ll look to cause chaos up front, threatening to blitz with...

Let’s get this divisional gauntlet underway.

Today, the Green Bay Packers start their sprint through the NFC North to finish out the 2025 regular season, with five divisional games in the last seven weeks. First up is the first of two games against the Minnesota Vikings, whom the Packers will also play in the season finale.

So far, the Vikings are struggling to find their footing under new quarterback J.J. McCarthy. The second-year pro and first-year starter has been bad — there’s no sugar-coating that — and with Green Bay’s defense will need to do a better job of taking...

Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley has a wide range of tools at his disposal that he can use to generate pressure on opposing quarterbacks. One way he can generate pressure is through the use of a concept called “hot quarters coverage.” It’s seldom used, and according to Sports Info Solutions, it has only been a tagged play call four times over one and a half seasons.

Nonetheless, it is a unique and interesting way to generate pressure because of how it forces offenses to add an extra layer of communication to their process before the snap. The goal...

The Green Bay Packers announced on Saturday that they have promoted two practice squad players to the team’s gameday roster against the Minnesota Vikings. These players are running back Pierre Strong Jr. and linebacker Jamon Johnson. This does not mean that these players will be active against Minnesota, but that they are among the eligible players who can make up Green Bay’s 48-man gameday roster tomorrow.

Both of these moves correlate to some concerning injuries for the Packers’ starters. First, Strong would need to be active against the Vikings if and only if starting running back Josh Jacobs isn’t active....

Jayden Reed is back! Well, sort of. On Friday, the Packers opened Reed’s 21 day practice window, designating the third year receiver to return from IR. While Reed has not practiced since week 2 after foot and collarbone surgeries, the juice he brings after the catch could be a massive boon to a Packers offense searching for YAC help since Tucker Kraft’s injury.

According to offensive coordinator Jason Vrable on Thursday, he believes Reed is “ready to roll” once he’s cleared. Reed unsurprisingly concurs, expressing enthusiasm for getting back on the field while speaking with reporters on Friday. And as...

Thank you to Christopher Gates of our sister site the Daily Norseman, which covers the Minnesota Vikings, for stopping by and answering a few questions about his team as they get ready to play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. If you want to find the pairing piece to this article, where Gates asks me questions about the game, you can find it HERE.

We gotta talk about J.J. McCarthy. What is the temperature like in Minnesota right now?

The answer to the McCarthy question depends almost entirely on who you talk to. There are people in the camp...

On Sunday in week 11 against the Giants, safety Evan Williams caught the game-ending interception to send the Packers to 6-3-1. It was a welcome relief after a game spent dropping what felt like a half dozen interceptions in their hands (it was only four by my count).

The game is funny that way. Less than a week after their week 10 game where the Packers defense looked like a championship level defense against the Eagles, they looked less like one in an extremely tight game versus the Giants.

After the game, Williams detailed a little bit of what he...

The Packers’ oldest rivals may be the Bears, but their most heated rivalry, at least in the 21st century, has to be with the Minnesota Vikings. That’s probably because of the simple fact that the Vikings have been much better over the last 20 to 30 years than the Bears, which leads to a lot of high stakes matchups.

You can see evidence of those stakes in how many of the Packers’ best performances against the Vikings are relatively recent. There’s plenty of old gold here, too, but as we look at the brightest moments by Packers players, take note...

Saturday is going to have a sleepy slate of games before things really ramp up in rivalry week, where we’ll get #4 Georgia @ #16 Georgia Tech and #3 Texas A&M @ #17 Texas on Black Friday and #1 Ohio State @ #18 Michigan and #14 Vanderbilt @ #20 Tennessee on Saturday. This week, though, we will only get two top-25 matchups on the entire slate, in part because the SEC has (mostly) scheduled cupcakes leading up to their rivalry games.

Let’s break down these top-25 matchups and the top NFL prospects in these games, [according to the consensus draft...