GREEN BAY, Wis. — For the second straight Friday, the Inexperienced Bay Packers listed Jordan Love as questionable on their damage report.
Do not count on the identical Saturday downgrade to uncertain as final week’s.
After not practising in any respect final week, Love took half in all three practices this week — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, albeit in restricted vogue — and coach Matt LaFleur mentioned they’ll take it proper up till inactives are due 90 minutes earlier than Sunday’s kickoff on the Tennessee Titans if mandatory.
When requested after Friday’s apply whether or not Love had been medically cleared to play, LaFleur mentioned: “We’re working by means of that.”
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Whereas that is step one in a return to recreation motion for the primary time since Love sprained the MCL in his left knee late within the Sept. 6 season opener in opposition to the Eagles, it isn’t solely the one issue.
“I feel there’s positively loads that is as much as him,” LaFleur mentioned. “You do not need to put any individual in that place, however actually he is doing every thing in his energy. He desires to be on the market greater than anyone. However we’ll work by means of it. We’ll give it as much as recreation time and we’ll see the place we’re at.”
It is attainable that LaFleur already is aware of whether or not Love will play on Sunday or Malik Willis will make his second straight begin, as a result of when requested what else he must see with the intention to decide whether or not Love will play, LaFleur mentioned: “There’s nothing extra to see, proper? We put all of it, every thing on the market.”
“Yeah there’s positively numerous it that’s psychological and simply making an attempt to ensure your thoughts’s proper for while you do get again and do get again on the sector, simply ensuring that there is no, I might say, worry of reinjuring or something like that,” Love mentioned on Wednesday throughout his first media session because the damage.
“I imply I do a superb job simply making an attempt to guarantee that I am assured, assured within the rehab and every thing I am doing in there and the trainers and listening to them and simply taking it day-by-day. However there’s positively a part that could be very psychological, simply ensuring your thoughts’s able to get again and on the similar time, it is robust not getting reps at apply to a little bit little bit of time without work of simply kinda will get you out of that rhythm of that groove that you simply’re in, so all these issues are vital however the psychological side is large.”
If Love performs on Sunday in opposition to the Titans — or even when he would not play till Week 4 in opposition to the Vikings — his return would beat the preliminary timelines reported shortly after the damage within the closing seconds of the loss to the Eagles.
“He has to really feel proper bodily with the intention to play,” Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements mentioned this week. “Within the NFL, normally after the primary, second recreation, from that time on, numerous guys have issues they must maintain with the intention to get able to play at a excessive degree that week. It is a bodily recreation; everybody has to do what they really feel they should do to prepare to have the ability to carry out. That is a weekly sort of state of affairs for everyone.”
Willis began final week’s 16-10 win over the Colts, however the Packers used a run-heavy recreation plan that had Willis full simply 12 of 14 passes for 122 yards and a landing move.
