GREEN BAY, Wis. — Twelve days after struggling a left knee damage within the season opener, Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love returned to the apply discipline and left open the opportunity of enjoying Sunday on the Tennessee Titans.
Love has missed just one recreation — Sunday’s win over the Indianapolis Colts, when Malik Willis began at quarterback — after preliminary indications had been that he might miss as much as a month due to a sprained MCL.
Love wore a protecting brace that was coated by a sleeve that prolonged virtually your complete size of his leg and was formally a restricted participant in Wednesday’s apply. Coach Matt LaFleur would not specify whether or not Love took half in solely chosen drills or took half in each drill beneath a rep depend.
Along with nonetheless needing medical clearance, Love must be cellular sufficient to guard himself from damage to play Sunday.
“The trainers are seeing all the things I am doing they usually’re not gonna put me on the market except they really feel assured that I can shield myself,” Love stated Wednesday. “However on the identical time, that is why it is good to get some apply reps in and get that really feel of what it is like once more.”
Love acknowledged that not all the things could be simulated in apply.
“There’s simply nothing like when it is reside bullets, you are within the recreation and that rush is actual,” stated Love, “so there’s loads of issues I won’t expertise earlier than I get again within the recreation.”
Willis stated he’s impressed with Love’s restoration.
“You possibly can see that he feels extra comfy simply shifting across the constructing, the best way he was on the market right this moment,” Willis stated. “I would not be stunned [if Love plays]. I simply have to remain prepared and give attention to what I can management [and] depart it as much as him and Coach LaFleur.”
In the meantime, LaFleur has been tasked with making an attempt to get Willis sufficient work in apply in order that he can use extra of the playbook than he did in Sunday’s win over the Colts, when the Packers threw simply 14 instances and ran 53.
“That is all the time a problem, and so all through the course of the week, hopefully you get a greater indication and that sort of results in a number of the choices it’s a must to make,” LaFleur stated of getting two quarterbacks prepared.
Willis is not Sunday’s matchup as a revenge recreation after the Titans traded him to the Packers for a seventh-round choose on Aug. 26. The 2022 third-round choose began three video games for Tennessee, going 1-2.
“No, I might care much less, man,” Willis stated. “I feel I acquired paid the entire time I used to be there. I am greater than blessed for the alternatives given me. They introduced me into this league, whether or not these guys are there or not. That group, they took a shot on me. … They did a terrific job by me.”
