The Green Bay Packers are done with the warmup portion of camp. After four practices in five days in shorts, today is the first full-pads session of the summer, and that changes everything.
The first stretch of training camp is about shaking off the rust. Coaches settle back into the rhythm of practice, the training staff gets back into its routine, and the players ease into the speed again.
Once the pads go on, though, the evaluation gets a lot sharper. Contact has a way of exposing players who looked ordinary in the early days and making others jump off the field.
That’s the hope for Green Bay starting today. The Packers have depth in their young pass-rushing group, and they also have a tight end room that is young but not especially deep. Those are two spots where the padded practices could start revealing something useful.
Jordan Morgan is another player worth watching now that the pass rush will come at him with full force. The next step for him begins when the real contact starts.
Sunday’s practice also produced a few items of note. The Packers were on the field in the afternoon, and one name to track is defensive tackle Anthony Campbell, who has opened camp strongly. The question now is whether that start holds once the pads are on.
This week is building toward Family Night on Friday evening, and after that, attention will start shifting toward preseason games a week later. For now, the Packers are entering the part of camp where the sounds and collisions finally match the calendar.
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