Injuries, not talent, will determine the Green Bay Packers roster as cut day looms

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Green Bay Packers will be looking at who is actually healthy as they make final decisions on the roster. Plus, who helped and hurt themselves the most this preseason for the Pack?

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0:00.0	The final roster spots for the Green Bay Packers are going to be decided by injury, not by talent.
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1:02.8	The final 53 is going to be decided by the players who are healthy and who are, perhaps more importantly, not healthy.
1:15.3	Because as we've discussed here over the last couple of weeks, this is not about, oh, one
1:23.8	linebacker fighting with another linebacker for that last spot, although in this
1:27.8	case, maybe Isaiah Simmon and Christian Welch are actually doing that.
1:32.4	That might be the only place on this roster where that is true.
1:37.0	It's more about, okay, do you want to keep the extra tight end, the extra tackle, the extra
1:43.8	defensive tackle, the extra linebacker?
1:46.0	It's really more about comparing not one player in his position to another, though, you know, that is part of this, right?
1:55.8	Like if the player on the chopping block potentially were a spot higher on the depth chart.
2:02.3	They would not be potentially on the chopping block.
2:07.1	But I don't think this roster cuts comes down to, okay, you know, okay, this offensive lineman and this offensive linemen, this linebacker, and this is not, no, it's this player at this position versus this player at this other position. And as I went through
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