However, that doesn’t mean a the third-year wide receiver can not still end up of the team’s Week 1 53-man roster.
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That he was able to continue practicing indicated to Janis the injury was likely minor, a jam or dislocation at worst. His right hand was in a splint at Saturday’s practice. The Packers will need more from Lacy than what they received in 2015, and so far he looks much better.
Packers: Undrafted rookie Peter Mortell, who grew up in Green Bay, had the better night in his punting competition with seventh-year incumbent Tim Masthay. It is believed the hand injury occurred Wednesday during practice.
At receiver, despite essentially filling Jordy Nelson’s spot with the No. 1 offense, Janis failed to use last year’s playoff performance at Arizona as a springboard into this season. WR Randall Cobb’s 79 receptions were the most on the team; he had 829 yards and 6 touchdowns in his 15 starts.
“You might occasionally throw some no-look passes out there”, Rodgers said, smiling but emphasizing he’s not totally goofing off in doing so. He’s one of the most unsafe receivers in the entire league, and the only player on Green Bay’s roster capable of stretching a defense.
When the Packers released their list of 17 players who wouldn’t dress against the Browns about an hour before kickoff, the game immediately lost much of its appeal. Unfortunately, Nelson has been dealing with left knee tendinitis since the beginning of training camp, and there’s a chance we won’t see him in any of Green Bay’s preseason games.
The Browns got a safety in the first, but the Packers followed up just a few minutes later with a field goal.
And, as he showed Sunday with his drill work on the side as Getsy threw passes from different angles to the prone receiver, Montgomery isn’t resting in the fight to win a job.
“I feel like I’m ready right now”, he said earlier in the week. As we have seen in the past with the fore-mentioned Jermichael Finley and other past Packer greats like Paul Coffman, Keith Jackson and Mark Chmura the tight end position is very valuable to this program. He hasn’t heard either way from Mike McCarthy, suggesting the head coach was focused on getting No. 2 QB Brett Hundley more reps this week coming back from his ankle injury.
As a rookie, Janis played in just three games while making two catches in 2014.
His switch to what the Green Bay coaches refer to as an elephant end gives the Packers’ pass-rush rotation led by Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers another option. S Morgan Burnett (back) didn’t practice for the second straight day.
Janis would have had to play in 35% of the offensive snaps in two of his first three seasons in order to qualify for the low restricted tender offer, which was $1.671 million this year and will be more than that next year.
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While Hundley worked with the first team, Aaron Rodgers led the scout team offense against the Packers number one defense and scored a number of touchdowns.
