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

Aug 05, 2026 03:54 AM - 1 hour ago 3

The Green Bay Packers held their sixth training campy believe connected a glorious, sunny, 80-degree Tuesday morning.

The Packers will now return Wednesday off, person a closed believe Thursday and clasp their ‘Family Night’ connected Friday.

Here’s the good, bad and disfigured from believe No. 6.

THE GOOD

A WELCOME MOVE: Jordan Morgan spent his first 2 seasons hoping to play near tackle. Now that he is, Morgan is making the astir of it.

Morgan has had a coagulated summer. And during one-on-one drills Tuesday, Morgan defeated separator rusher Lukas Van Ness each 3 times.

“I’ve sewage a batch of assurance successful him,” Green Bay wide head Brian Gutekunst precocious said of Morgan. “Hopefully keeping him successful that 1 spot will let him to advancement a small spot quicker.”

PLAY OF THE DAY: Second-year protect extremity Barryn Sorrell has had a comparatively quiet commencement to camp. He made his beingness felt Tuesday, though, intercepting a Love walk and taking it 60 yards for a prime six.

Sorrell perfectly publication a backside surface to moving backmost Josh Jacobs and intercepted Love. Overall, it was astir apt Sorrell’s champion time of the summer.

“It’s a awesome feeling,” Sorrell said. “I don’t moreover cognize really to picture it. Definitely a awesome emotion anytime I tin spell retired location and make plays, that’s what I’m retired location to do. It’s fun.”

Sorrell, a 4th information draught prime successful 2025, played 14 games and 15.9% of the protect snaps past season.

Sorrell entered Week 18 pinch conscionable 7 tackles successful 13 games, 2 backmost hurries and nary sacks. Sorrell has faded to achromatic down the stretch, too, and was a patient doubly successful December — moreover pinch chap protect extremity Micah Parsons mislaid for the season.

Then successful Week 18 astatine Minnesota, Sorrell had 8 tackles, a sack and recovered a fumble. Sorrell besides stoned moving backmost Ty Chandler for a 1-yard nonaccomplishment connected third-and-1 precocious successful the first quarter, forcing a Minnesota punt.

With separator rusher Micah Parsons (ACL) expected retired until mid-to-late October, Sorrell knows he’s being counted connected to shine.

“Right now I’m conscionable trying to play my role,” Sorrell said. “At the extremity of the day, it’s an opportunity for maine and ‘m looking guardant to this opportunity. It’s the type of point that I’ve worked connected and this is what I’ve been waiting connected and praying for. I conscionable want to return advantage of it.”

SEIZING THE MOMENT: Second information rookie cornerback Brandon Cisse is taking afloat advantage of Carrington Valentine being sidelined pinch a hamstring injury.

Cisse was targeted 3 times during one-on-one drills and didn't let a completion.

“It feels awesome and there's conscionable a agelong ways to go,” Cisse said. “Every time I'm moving to get better. I'm obscurity adjacent arsenic awesome of a subordinate arsenic I want to be. I ne'er deliberation I'll beryllium arsenic awesome arsenic I want to be. It's ever conscionable moving and working, finishing the small details. It's bully to get retired there, knowledgeable different speeds, get utilized to it, truthful it'll beryllium fun.”

SECRET WEAPON?: Green Bay protect coordinator Jonathan Gannon has disguised blitzes from each complete the section passim training camp.

Newly acquired linebacker Zaire Franklin hasn't done overmuch rushing yet, but he could beryllium a concealed limb erstwhile the play starts.

Franklin has 10.0 sacks the past 4 seasons and had a 13.8% blitz complaint successful 2025.

“I mean that was decidedly thing that I've been moving to build on, and you cognize it came to fruition a small spot much past year,” said Franklin who spent his first 8 seasons pinch Indianapolis. “Just the expertise to impact the quarterback, you know, rushing and rushing the passer. I mean we had a batch of occurrence past twelvemonth pinch D-line stunts, blitzing done the A gap.

“I consciousness for illustration I'm a constituent of onslaught type of person. So it's benignant of for illustration … I consciousness for illustration I'm the extremity of the spear of the defense. I consciousness for illustration I'm champion erstwhile I'm starring from the front. So if you want the defense to beryllium physical, you want thing beingness past you’re amended disconnected sending maine for illustration a bullet. I mean fto maine wreck thing and group the reside for everybody.”

GOOD NEWS?: Packers prima separator rusher Micah Parsons discussed the advancement he’s making from his ACL and meniscus tear.

Parsons suffered the wounded connected Dec. 14, 2025 and had room connected Dec. 29. Parsons was asked if making it backmost for Green Bay’s Week 6 crippled against Dallas connected Oct. 18 was realistic.

“I deliberation it’s very realistic,” Parsons said. “Me and the staff, we’ve sewage to put the activity in. We’ve sewage to get to the constituent wherever I’m emotion awesome and we say, ‘Micah, you’ll beryllium successful a really bully phase.’ Is it possible? Yes. So, I wouldn’t opportunity it’s not imaginable but, astatine the aforesaid time, successful these adjacent 10 weeks – 10, 12 weeks from now connected – we’ve sewage to do our portion to make it possible. It’s not disconnected the committee but we’ve sewage to put the activity in.”

Parsons was besides asked if he envisioned himself playing less snaps aft his comeback is complete. His reply will put a grin connected the faces of aged schoolhouse shot fans.

“I don't needfully opportunity so,” he said. “I consciousness for illustration if we're going to spell that way of for illustration the NBA guys, of, ‘Oh, they request to play truthful galore snaps aliases games aliases whatever,’ I'm successful the incorrect sport, you know? We talked astir this. Would you alternatively person highest aliases longevity? I’d alternatively person peak.

“I’d alternatively maximize my eight, nine, 10 years that I person of this crippled and cognize that I put everything retired connected the line, than to person 15 years and opportunity ‘I was only bully for a mates because I tried to play the longevity game, not spell each out.’ So I’d alternatively person the peak, for real.”

MAKING MOVES: The Packers signed tight ends McCallan Castles and Drew Biber and waived/injured tight ends Luke Lachey and RJ Maryland.

Castles (6-4, 244), a first-year subordinate retired of the University of Tennessee, spent the 2nd half of past play connected the Packers’ believe squad and portion of the offseason pinch Green Bay earlier being released April 17.

In six assemblage seasons astatine Cal (2018-19), UC Davis (2020-22) and Tennessee (2023), Castles had 92 receptions for 1,226 yards and 14 touchdowns. He will deterioration No. 47 successful Green Bay.

Biber (6-3, 247), a Cedarburg, Wis., native, played 4 seasons for Purdue (2021-24) and 1 play astatine the University of Minnesota (2025). Overall, he had 33 receptions for 271 yards (8.2 avg.) and a touchdown. Biber will deterioration No. 46.

THIS AND THAT: Benjamin St-Juste sacked Tyrod Taylor connected a area blitz for the 2nd consecutive day. “It’s been very successful the past mates days successful training campy and we’ve sewage a batch of different varieties of what we tin nonstop and wherever we tin nonstop it from – correct side, near side, some sides astatine the aforesaid time,” St-Juste said of blitzing. … The Packers altered their No. 1 violative statement moving Jager Burton to near guard, Jacob Monk to correct defender and Anothony Belton to correct tackle. That near Darian Kinnard — who had been moving astatine correct tackle — operating pinch the No. 2 offense. … Safety Evan Williams had a sack and a pressure. … Aaron Banks (knee), who’s been practicing 1 time and resting the next, was backmost astatine practice.

THE BAD

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

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), tight extremity RJ Maryland (hamstring), tight extremity Luke Lachey and protect backmost Johnathan Baldwin each missed practice.

THE UGLY

PARANOIA: Green Bay Packers caput coach Matt LaFleur no longer has officials signaling if section extremity attempts are successful during his team’s practices.

The reason?

“I conscionable emotion making you guys uncomfortable,” LaFleur said referring to the media.

No 1 should beryllium much uncomfortable than the caput coach himself, though.

Green Bay rookie kicker Trey Smack is disconnected to a unsmooth start, making conscionable 8-of-13 section extremity attempts (61.5%). The Packers’ kicking business has been a revolving doorway since they moved connected from franchise profession scoring leader Mason Crosby aft the 2022 season, and Smack’s commencement has been acold from ideal.

“I conscionable deliberation it’s going to beryllium a activity successful progress,” LaFleur said regarding Smack. “This is not our first clip pinch a rookie kicker, truthful I cognize that there’s going to beryllium immoderate good, and past I cognize there’s going to beryllium immoderate that he’s going to want to person back. I deliberation that’s each portion of the learning process.”

LaFleur, who began coaching Green Bay successful 2019, enjoyed 4 years of reliability from Crosby, who made 85.4% of his section goals successful that time. Since then, Anders Carlson, Brayden Narveson, Brandon McManus and Lucas Havrisik person each taken their swings, but yet were replaced.

During the 2023 playoffs, FOX newsman Tom Rinaldi said on-air that LaFleur told him regarding rookie kicker Anders Carlson, “When he goes retired there, I conscionable pray.”

LaFleur mightiness want to find his rosary again.

While LaFleur tin effort protecting his kicker successful believe by removing officials, he won’t person that action erstwhile the existent games arrive.

Then, we’ll spot if LaFleur is praying erstwhile again.