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Jordy Nelson has no restrictions for Week 1, fantasy value high

“We’ll be ready to go – 100 degrees or minus-30”.

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Fantasy Spin: You drafted Nelson to be your fantasy football team’s top wide receiver, so do not treat him like anything less for now.

Nelson missed the 2015 season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

Held out of training camp until the final two weeks due to the second knee, Nelson didn’t get as much practice and preseason time as he had hoped. Depth on the defensive front will be thinned out because of the NFL’s four-game suspension of emerging third-year player Mike Pennel for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.

“That’ll come in time with Lane”, Lang said.

There was good news and bad news for some of the spots and health status of many key components of this Packers team, so let’s break down each storyline of what was an insane weekend. It would have been nice to see Nelson in the preseason, but he is too big of a player in this offense to not produce in his first game back.

Sitton, who started all but two games for the Packers since 2009, is expected to start at left guard and combine with Kyle Long to form one of the best guard tandems in the NFL. Nelson said he’s ready for any workload, but there is no estimate on the number of plays he’ll take. Lane Taylor or Don Barclay could be the starter, but there might be other shuffling that occurs this week.

“I felt better today, honestly, than what I thought I was going to be, wind-wise, conditioning-wise, of running those routes and being full padded and everything”, Nelson said as he returned to the practice field.

Asked if the Packers were better with Taylor, McCarthy said, “I don’t think it’s fair to say that about anybody. I think that when you look at the success of a football team, if you look at the health of the starting offensive line, there’s a lot that correlates to the success of the football team”.

A new Packers season brings with it a new slogan for the original Packers fence. “Chicago, they had me in first, and they got it done first”. “Nothing’s changed. Just go out and play football and try to focus on being the best teammate, the best leader and a great locker room guy, and just continue to get better”. It’s not the news anybody wants to hear, but once we kind of took a day to kind of get past it, we moved on and we got back to how we normally go about business. And Green Bay will be without young lineman Mike Pennel for the first four games because of a league suspension. He also caused a minor stir at midseason previous year when, during a midweek football show for the Green Bay Press-Gazette newspaper, he said that the Packers offense had “become too predictable. “We’ve got guys there that we feel are fairly physical guys, we’ve got guys there that have had experience of playing inside”. There’s a lot of things that could happen differently.

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The Packers signed long snapper Brett Goode and claimed RB Jhurell Pressley off waivers from the Vikings. Nelson played 92.1 percent of the Packers’ offensive snaps in 2014, when he last played in a regular-season game.

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