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The Green Bay Packers are already facing the tough reality of a suboptimal plan. Already thin at cornerback, the defense will be without the biggest addition of the offseason for the rest of training camp and preseason. According to\u00a0Bill Huber\u00a0from Sports Illustrated, Nate Hobbs had to go through a minor knee surgery and is expected to miss about three weeks of action, so he can be ready for the\u00a0Week 1 game against the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe procedure was more preventative than anything. Hobbs might have been able to play through it all season with no troubles. But, with Week 1 more than a month away \u2013 the Packers will host the Detroit Lions on Sept. 7 \u2013 Hobbs and the team opted to take care of things now to ensure he\u2019ll not only be ready for the season but be able to get through the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea of protecting Hobbs now that games are meaningless is smart, but it\u2019s also unfortunate that the new player will miss most of his first training camp with the Packers. The problem, and which shows the fragility of the Packers plan at cornerback, is that Hobbs has a significant injury history. Over the past three seasons, he has missed 16 games, mostly due to ankle issues. When the team cut Jaire Alexander exactly because of his injury history, that is especially a concern.<\/p>\n
When the\u00a0Packers gave Nate Hobbs a four-year, $48 million deal in free agency\u00a0back in March, the perception was that the player had suffered multiple injuries due to his physicality. And he has shown that in practice\u2014to the point where the coaching staff had to ask him to slow down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a balance to a lot of things, but we\u2019re trying to become a certain kind of football team that can win, go deep into the playoffs, so there\u2019s a certain kind of physicality that you have to have,\u201d general manager Brian Gutekunst said last week. \u201cAnd Nate Hobbs brings all that. That\u2019s why we brought him here. And it\u2019s very important that all our guys have that kind of edge to them. You want to make good decisions while you\u2019re going through camp and keeping guys healthy. At the same time, it\u2019s hard. We\u2019re asking these guys to fly around, be physical in plays and to back off. Sometimes it\u2019s not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Packers are banking on\u00a0cornerback being a weak-link system, since\u00a0there isn\u2019t a top cornerback in the group. But without Hobbs, the risk of having a weak-link on the field becomes greater. Right now, the starters would be Keisean Nixon and Carrington Valentine, with safety Javon Bullard in the slot, but there\u2019s little margin for error left.<\/p>\n
The room also had seventh-round rookie Micah Robinson, practice squad holdovers Kamal Hadden and Kalen King, converted wide receiver Bo Melton, Isaiah Dunn, and rookie free agents Tyron Herring, Garnett Hollis, and Johnathan Baldwin. On Monday, the Packers also signed back Corey Ballentine and waived Gregory Junior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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