The Packers kept the roster churn moving Monday, bringing in three safeties for workouts as they prepare for a Thursday night game and compress an entire week into a much tighter window than usual.
According to the NFL transaction wire, Green Bay worked out Chris Edmonds, Wande Owens and Juanyeh Thomas after its win over the New York Jets. The timing is a little different than normal. The Packers usually handle these workouts on their “off” day Tuesday, but this week’s Thursday Night Football matchup forces everything into a faster rhythm.
Edmonds is the most familiar name in the group for Green Bay. He was a pre-draft visitor with the Packers, and that matters here because the team has already shown a preference for bringing in players it has previously met. This season, Green Bay has added practice squad players Damon Bankston and Eric Johnson II after earlier visits, so Edmonds fits the same general pattern.
A third-year player, Edmonds was waived by the Cleveland Browns at cutdown time. He appeared in 11 regular-season games across two seasons in Cleveland, but his usage was heavily tilted toward special teams: 175 special teams snaps against just 11 defensive snaps.
That points to the kind of role he’d likely fill if Green Bay moved further on him. This looks like his first workout since Cleveland moved on.
Owens comes with a different kind of background. He signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent, but an ACL tear in 2025 landed him on injured reserve before his rookie preseason was even finished.
Buffalo cut him in late July of 2026, then brought him back before this year’s preseason after he had already worked out for several teams. He has not appeared in a regular-season game, and this appears to be his first workout since he was waived at the cutdown deadline.
Thomas has the most NFL experience of the three, and he brings a clear special teams profile. He entered the league with the Dallas Cowboys in 2022 as an undrafted free agent and spent four seasons there before joining the Indianapolis Colts, who waived him at cutdown time.
Over his career, Thomas has played 36 games and made four starts on defense for Dallas. His totals include 550 defensive snaps and 706 special teams snaps, and from 2023 through 2024 he logged 599 special teams reps, one of the bigger workloads in the league during that stretch.
His best-known special teams moment came in 2024, when he returned an onside kick for a touchdown. Thomas is also the brother of Azareye’h Thomas, the cornerback who just played against the Packers yesterday. Since his release from Indianapolis, he has visited the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans and Cleveland Browns before landing in Green Bay for this workout.
The Packers do not have an open spot on either the 53-man roster or the practice squad right now, so any addition would require a corresponding move. That could change if WR Jayden Reed and RT Zach Bako-Bewele end up on injured reserve.
Green Bay’s current practice squad includes QB Kedon Slovis, RB Pierre Strong Jr., RB Damon Bankston, WR Isaiah Neyor, WR Quincy Skinner Jr., OT/OG Dalton Cooper, OG Josh Gesky, OG/OC Dillon Wade, OG Cordell Volson, DL Eric Johnson II, ED Nyjalik Kelly, ED Arron Mosby, LB Kristian Welch, CB Domani Jackson, S Khalef Kailassie and K Lenny Krieg, who is on an international exemption.
Kailassie is the only safety currently on the practice squad, and he was added during Week 1, so the team has not made a major long-term commitment there yet. Green Bay is also a little thin in the secondary overall, with 11 defensive backs on the combined 53-man roster and practice squad.
Since the cutdown deadline, the Packers have run through a long list of workouts. Among the names to come through are QB Jack Plummer, QB Cam Miller, RB Phil Mafah, RB Damon Bankston, RB Ian Wheeler, WR Nick Nash, WR Bryce Oliver, WR Quincy Skinner Jr., TE Cody Hardy, OL Cordell Volson, DL Zxavian Harris, DL Eric Johnson II, DL Jalen Hunt, ED Cruz Smith, CB Ambry Thomas, S Sanoussi Kane, S Kahlef Hailassie, S John Saunders Jr., and now Edmonds, Owens and Thomas.
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