The Good, Bad And Ugly From The Packers’ 7th Training Camp Practice

Aug 07, 2026 06:06 AM - 1 hour ago 1

The Green Bay Packers held their seventh training campy believe connected a gorgeous Thursday wherever temperatures were successful the mid-70s.

The believe was besides closed to the fans for the first clip this camp.

Green Bay will now clasp its Family Night wrong of Lambeau Field Friday, wherever astir 60,000 fans are expected to attend.

Here’s the good, bad and disfigured — compiled from aggregate reports — from believe No. 7.

THE GOOD

MAKING A MOVE: Jacob Monk, a 5th information draught prime successful 2024, has had had a quiet first 2 seasons.

Monk played conscionable 5.42% of the violative snaps past play aft playing zero snaps arsenic a rookie. Monk’s lone commencement came successful Week 18, 2025, against Minnesota erstwhile Green Bay rested its starters.

But Monk has worked pinch the No. 1 discourtesy passim campy arsenic near defender Aaron Banks useful his measurement backmost from a knee injury. While Monk has played chiefly near guard, he besides spent clip astatine correct defender Thursday.

“He continues to get amended and amended each and each year, each and each practice,” Green Bay caput coach Matt LaFleur said. “I thought he played good erstwhile fixed the opportunity, particularly successful that Minnesota game. I thought he did a batch of bully things, truthful I'm excited astir conscionable his trajectory.”

If healthy, Green Bay’s violative statement figures to beryllium (from left) Jordan Morgan, Banks, Sean Rhyan, Anthony Belton and Zach Bako-Bewele. The backup jobs are up for grabs, though, and Monk — who tin besides play halfway — appears to beryllium successful bully style to declare a spot connected the 53-man roster.
“I emotion Monk's playstyle,” Packers violative coordinator Adam Stenavich said. “His mindset, he's sewage the correct mindset. He tries to get aft group and plays the crippled the correct way. So I've been happy pinch really he's played truthful acold this camp.”

BIG MAN, BIG SUMMER: Packers rookie protect tackle Anthony Campbell has gone from an tremendous longshot to make the roster to having a puncher’s chance of sticking.

The 6-foot-6, 307-pound Campbell has turned heads by batting down a walk almost each day. On Thursday, Campbell had a sack of backmost Tyrod Taylor.

“He has fantabulous length,” Green Bay wide head Brian Gutekunst said of Campbell. “I do deliberation he's getting better, and he's surely been impactful successful this first week.

“But he has awesome length, and he's really utilizing it well. Not only conscionable batting passes down, but you guys person seen him erstwhile he erstwhile he strikes and he locks those guys out. That's a uncommon trait, you know, and he's done a really bully occupation of that. So, yeah, excited to spot benignant of him getting immoderate of these preseason games, arsenic well.”

ANOTHER SURPRISE: John Williams, a seventh information draught prime successful 2025, spent past play connected the injured reserve database pinch a backmost injury. Williams has had a beardown commencement to camp, though, and is getting looks each crossed the violative line.

“I sewage to punctual guys, for what he's done truthful acold successful a week has been beautiful awesome pinch the truth he hasn't played shot successful a year,” Green Bay wide head Brian Gutekunst said of Williams. “You cognize what I mean?

“It's really bully to spot him retired there. And again, he's been competitive. They've moved him each around. I deliberation he's played almost each 5 spots, which you cognize is euphony to my ears. But astatine immoderate point, I deliberation he'll commencement to settee successful somewhere, truthful we tin get a really bully look astatine him. I'm excited to spot the preseason games and spot what he tin do there.”
GREAT HANDS: Wideout Isaiah Neyor made a spinning drawback successful the reddish area connected a shot from reserve backmost Kyle McCord. Neyor reached back, down information Kitan Oladapo to make the awesome catch.

Green Bay’s apical 3 wideouts are group pinch Christian Watson, Matthew Golden and Jayden Reed. After that, it’s wide open.

“I deliberation I've put beautiful bully things connected tape,” Neyor said. “I'm still looking guardant to fixing the small things. I'm not wherever I want to beryllium at, but I consciousness for illustration I'm trending successful the correct direction, truthful I conscionable want to support that up.”

THIS AND THAT: While LaFleur said Thursday greeting it would beryllium a “lighter day”, the Packers did believe successful pads for 1 hour, 34 minutes. … J.J. Watt, who played collegiately astatine the University of Wisconsin earlier winning NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors 3 times pinch the Houston Texans, was astatine practice. Watt was precocious elevated to No. 1 expert domiciled astatine CBS aft Tony Romo was put connected time off pursuing his apprehension connected suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

THE BAD

NEW INJURY: Running backmost Josh Jacobs missed believe pinch a groin wounded that’s not believed to beryllium serious.

Jacobs, who has 7,803 profession rushing yards and 76 full touchdowns, has practiced passim camp.

Jacobs was arrested connected May 26, 2026, successful relationship to a home conflict that occurred days earlier, starring to bookings for preliminary charges that included home maltreatment battery, disorderly conduct, and felony strangulation/suffocation.

The Brown County District Attorney's agency released him the pursuing day, though, stating they were not yet prepared to record charges and needed to petition further investigation. To date, nary general charges person been issued.

FROM THE INFIRMARY: Here’s really the Packers’ wounded database looked Thursday.

Reserve lists: separator rusher Micah Parsons (knee), protect tackle Javon Hargrave (knee), moving backmost Chris Brooks (hamstring), tight extremity Luke Musgrave (neck), agelong snapper Matt Orzech (calf) and protect tackle Jordon Reilly (Achilles).

Cornerback Carrington Valentine (hamstring), protect backmost Johnathan Baldwin and Jacobs each missed practice.

THIS AND THAT: Safety Javon Bullard brought tight extremity Josh Whyle to the ground, past later apologized to Whyle. … Running backmost Pierre Strong dropped a heavy shot from Tyrod Taylor. … Jordan Love threw into triple coverage, but information Xavier McKinney dropped the pass.

THE UGLY

FLIPPING OUT: Oft-injured moving backmost MarShawn Lloyd, who’s played conscionable 1 crippled successful his first 2 seasons, did a backmost flip aft scoring a touchdown.

While the play itself was incredibly awesome and displayed Lloyd’s uncommon diversion gifts, caput coach Matt LaFleur told Lloyd his days of doing backmost flips are over.

“Coach LaFleur doesn’t want maine to do it nary more,” Lloyd said aft practice. “Just emotion good. Excited.

“The moving backs weren’t doing immoderate celebrations erstwhile we were scoring, and the full discourtesy wasn’t liking that, particularly the receivers came into the moving backmost room and said you guys request to commencement celebrating more. That’s the first point that came to mind. I can’t dance, truthful I don’t cognize really to do each the dances they were doing, but I cognize really to do a backmost flip.”

It’s easy to spot why LaFleur wants to limit immoderate consequence surrounding Lloyd.

Lloyd played conscionable 10 snaps successful 2024, past didn’t play astatine each past play owed to a bevy of injuries. He’s shined early successful camp, and could beryllium an X-factor if he tin enactment healthy.

“Every clip he's sewage an opportunity and he's been patient and he's retired there, he's been impactful, and he's continuing to do that,” Green Bay wide head Brian Gutekunst said. “And I'm excited for him.

“Again, very early, sewage a agelong measurement to go. But erstwhile he's retired there, he's making plays and he's turning heads, and he ever benignant of has done that since he's been here, erstwhile he's been capable to beryllium retired there. So yeah, excited for wherever he's going.”