Nursing injuries and with playoff seeding locked in, expect a band of misfit Packers to take the field on Sunday.
You know that disorienting sensation where you’re watching the Packers late in the season and suddenly a player you’ve literally never heard — and who you could be reasonably convinced doesn’t actually exist — makes a play?
Get ready to feel that sensation a lot on Sunday.
With the Packers playoff seeding already locked in, Head Coach Matt LaFleur has hinted that key starters will sit out this Sunday’s matchup to protect health ahead of the postseason. And while many of us have been mailing it in at our jobs the last week or two, Green Bay’s front office has been busy reshaping its roster for the finale, making more than a dozen roster changes and elevating multiple players from the practice squad to the active roster.
There is a non-zero chance that the only quarterbacks taking the field for the Packers will be Clayton Tune and the newly acquired Desmond Ridder. Yeah, that Desmond Ridder. Sarcasm aside, it makes sense not to risk Jordan Love, and Malik Willis is also nursing a shoulder injury.
Meanwhile, there have been several practice-squad elevations and new additions like Damien Martinez, Jonathan Ford (old friend alert) and Trevon Diggs.
We’ve yet to learn anything about possible sits and starts for wide receivers, but given LaFleur’s past experience with losing key players in meaningless games, it stands to reason that players like Christian Watson could see little to no action.
At any rate, if ever there were a game to turn your brain off and simply try to just enjoy the football, it’s this one. The outcome won’t matter, and getting out injury free would be the only victory worth celebrating. And if you squint, it might even look like a real football game!
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