{"id":25831,"date":"2025-06-15T22:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25831"},"modified":"2025-06-15T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:42:39","slug":"breaking-packers-injured-playmaker-vows-strong-return-season-after-freakish-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25831","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Packers Injured Playmaker Vows Strong Return Season After &#8216;Freakish&#8217; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2151363818-e1750024170141.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2151363818-e1750024170141.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2151363818-e1750024170141.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2151363818-e1750024170141.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Packers Injured Playmaker Vows Strong Return Season After 'Freakish' 2024\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His rookie season was not exactly what Packers running back MarShawn Lloyd envisioned. As the team\u2019s third-round pick in 2023, it was anticipated that he would have a significant role in the team\u2019s rebuilt running game, primarily as the backup to new starter Josh Jacobs. But we never quite got there with Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we never quite got much of anywhere with Lloyd. He opened training camp on the injury list with a hip problem he suffered after minicamp last year. He played in one preseason game and hurt his hamstring, which put him out for the Packers\u2019 season opener in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He played in one game against the Colts in Week 2, and ran for 15 yards on six carries, with one catch and three years receiving. But form there, he hurt his ankle, went on the injured reserve and, as he was prepping to come off it, suffered appendicitis and needed surgery. The Packers did not get Lloyd back for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>That, he is hoping, is about to change.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Packers Moving Slowly<\/h2>\n<p>Lloyd was back at full throttle in minicamp, which was welcome for him because, though he felt good in OTAs, he was sequestered from the rest of the team and left to rehab with a coach.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he does not see it as rehabbing. More along the lines of re-acclimating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot rehabbing anything just, when you go through a year where you have certain things, like, you have a hamstring or you have a hip, there\u2019s certain things you can\u2019t just throw a person out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to figure things out, you got to figure the body out, so I was up for playing and feeling 100%, but they wanted to just slowly get my way into it. I haven\u2019t played a team sport for, it\u2019s been a minute. Eventually, as the middle of OTAs went through, I started to get back into practices, and now I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2662597\/matt-lafleur.jpg\" alt=\"Packers Share Cryptic Injury Update for Dynamic Playmaker - Newsweek\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>MarShawn Lloyd Ready for 2025 Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>The Packers still hold out a lot of hope for the 5-foot-9, 220-pound Lloyd. Late last year, position coach Ben Sirmans said the team should view it as a \u201credshirt\u201d year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the things are freakish that obviously happened to him,\u201d said Sirmans. \u201cObviously, he\u2019s disappointed the way the year has gone for him but it\u2019s almost, to a degree, like having a redshirt year from the standpoint of the time that he\u2019s missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There should be opportunities. Last year, the Packers\u2019 No. 2 back, Emanuel Wilson, got 103 carries and No. 3, Chris Brooks, got 36. Lloyd is expected to leapfrog both on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>He says he will be ready, injuries aside. \u201cI play football,\u201d he said. \u201cI am very comfortable with everything I can do. I am not trying to prove anything to anybody. I know what I can do. I mean, if you\u2019re watching, you\u2019re watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packers running back MarShawn Lloyd suffered a series of freakish injuries in 2024, but says he is ready for his new role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-bay-packers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : Packers Injured Playmaker Vows Strong Return Season After &#039;Freakish&#039; 2024 - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25831\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Packers Injured Playmaker Vows Strong Return Season After &#039;Freakish&#039; 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