The Packers added another body up front on Thursday, signing offensive lineman Cordell Volson to their practice squad after he was the lone player to work out for the team a day earlier.
Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated reported the move, which gives Green Bay its seventh outside signing for the practice squad this season and brings the unit to full strength.
Volson arrives with plenty of NFL experience, all of it at guard. A fourth-round pick out of North Dakota State in 2022, he played 50 games with 48 starts for the Cincinnati Bengals across his rookie deal. His 2025 regular season never got going because of season-ending surgery on his right shoulder.
After that contract expired, Volson landed a one-year, $3.2 million deal with the Tennessee Titans this offseason, including $2 million guaranteed. He didn’t survive final cuts, leaving him back on the market.
His path this summer also included a workout with the Dallas Cowboys last week. Dallas ultimately went in another direction, signing former Pro Bowler Laken Tomlinson to its practice squad. Volson had entered camp projected as Tennessee’s starting right guard, but rookie fifth-round pick Fernando Carmona Jr. won the job instead.
There’s also a recent Pro Football Focus number attached to Volson that helps explain why teams have been poking around. His 29.1 grade in true pass protection sets in 2024 was the last regular-season action he saw.
With Volson in the building, Green Bay’s practice squad roster is filled out, and the Packers now have 10 players on the practice squad who were part of the 91-man active roster before cutdowns. The club also has a noticeable pileup along the offensive line, with 14 linemen counted between the 53-man roster and the 17-man practice squad.
That overall roster breakdown now sits at: QB: 3
RB: 5 (1 exempt) WR: 8 (1 IR-DFR)
TE: 5 (1 PUP) OL: 14
DL: 8 (1 PUP) ED: 6 (1 IR-DFR, 1 PUP)
LB: 6 CB: 6
S: 5 K: 2
P: 1 LS: 1
If Green Bay needs to make room somewhere else later, the offensive line is the most obvious spot where the numbers could get trimmed.
The Packers’ post-cutdown tryout and visit list has been a long one, and Volson now joins a group that has included 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, DL Zxavian Harris, DL Eric Johnson II, DL Jalen Hunt, ED Cruz Smith, CB Ambry Thomas, S Sanoussi Kane, S Kahlef Hailassie and S John Saunders Jr.
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