The Inexperienced Bay Packers may get their beginning quarterback again prior to anticipated.
Jordan Love, who injured his knee Sept. 6 in the course of the crew’s season-opening loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Brazil, practiced on Wednesday for the primary time because the harm. He may return to the lineup Sunday when Inexperienced Bay travels to Nashville to satisfy the winless Tennessee Titans.
Nonetheless, if Love sits out once more, it might arrange a matchup of backup Malik Willis opposing the franchise that drafted him within the third spherical in 2022. Traded to the Packers final month, Willis engineered final week’s 16-10 win over the Indianapolis Colts, hitting 12 of 14 passes for 122 yards and a landing.
Willis additionally flashed his mobility, dashing for 41 yards on six carries, and he completed with a 126.8 passer score — far above his profession mark of 49.4 coming into the sport.
“Issues occurred,” Willis mentioned of his new group. “So I am right here now and grateful to educate (Matt LaFleur) and the GM and all people who’s part of this.”
Willis performed in 11 video games throughout elements of two seasons for Tennessee, finishing 35 of 66 passes for 350 yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions. His time with the franchise was completed from the second coach Mike Vrabel made then-rookie Will Levis the starter final October.
Levis confirmed greater than sufficient down the stretch, despite the fact that the Titans missed the playoffs, to earn the No. 1 job for this 12 months. Now together with his new crew, Willis is perhaps the quarterback tasked with getting the Packers to 2-1.
“I did not get up considering I used to be going to be traded,” he mentioned after being dealt on Aug. 27. “So it positively caught me unexpectedly. … It is time to go.”
Whereas Willis prepares in case he will get the beginning once more, there isn’t any query Levis is the man in Tennessee. Nonetheless, first-year coach Brian Callahan desires to see Levis enhance his decision-making, an issue space because the Titans began 0-2.
After tossing a game-changing pick-six in Tennessee’s season-opening loss at Chicago, Levis performed higher final week within the crew’s second straight 24-17 defeat, this time to the New York Jets. He was 19 of 28 for 192 yards with a landing but in addition combined in two turnovers.
One was an ill-advised lateral to Tony Pollard that turned a sack right into a fumble that value the Titans an opportunity to go up by two scores within the second quarter. The opposite was an interception that was cashed in for a tying landing simply earlier than halftime.
“I am actually happy with how he performed for essentially the most half,” Callahan mentioned of Levis. “I assumed Will made a very nice enchancment from Week 1 to Week 2.”
Search for Levis and Tennessee to get DeAndre Hopkins extra concerned within the passing recreation. Hopkins, a three-time All-Professional, caught a team-high 75 passes for 1,057 yards final 12 months, his seventh 1,000-yard season, however has been restricted to 2 grabs for 17 yards by way of this 12 months’s first two video games.
Tennessee had only one participant miss the Wednesday follow resulting from an harm, working again Tyjae Spears (ankle). Inexperienced Bay was with out 4 gamers on Wednesday: guard Elgton Jenkins (sickness/glute), sort out Jordan Morgan (shoulder), huge receiver Jayden Reed (calf) and defensive again Carrington Valentine (ankle).
The Titans personal an 8-6 lead within the all-time collection with Inexperienced Bay, together with a 3-0 mark in Nashville.
–Subject Stage Media