The Packers took a close look at four more players on Tuesday, bringing in two linebackers and two cornerbacks for workouts as Green Bay continues to sort through its options. There have been no reports that any of the four has signed, and the team’s 53-man roster and practice squad are both currently full after linebacker Kristian Welch was moved up to the active roster and running back Damon Bankston was brought back onto the practice squad.
The linebacker group included Deion Jones and Chris Paul. Jones is the bigger name of the two, a former Pro Bowl selection who entered the league as a second-round pick by the Atlanta Falcons.
His NFL start came in the same building where Packers coach Matt LaFleur was then working as the quarterbacks coach. Jones, an LSU product, made the Pro Bowl in his second season, but he hasn’t been a full-time starter at linebacker since the 2021 season.
Since then, Jones has bounced around the league with the Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers, Buffalo Bills, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Francisco 49ers. Over the last five years, he has made eight starts.
This offseason brought another round of movement: he was initially kept by the Buccaneers on a reserve-futures deal after ending the 2025 season on their practice squad, then released and later signed by the Saints. After roughly two weeks in New Orleans, he was traded to the 49ers for running back Zamir White.
Both players were cut at roster deadline, and White was brought back on San Francisco’s practice squad while Jones was not retained.
Paul comes with a very different profile. The 23-year-old former fifth-round pick of the Los Angeles Rams is younger than Jones by a wide margin and has yet to appear in an NFL game. Seattle claimed him after the 2025 cutdown deadline, but he was waived with an injury settlement at the 2026 cutdown deadline.
Green Bay also examined two cornerbacks. Cobee Bryant was one of the more notable undrafted free agents in the 2025 class.
He signed with the Atlanta Falcons, played in seven games as a rookie, and then was waived at the 2026 cutdown deadline. Atlanta brought him back to the practice squad for two days before letting him go.
Dwight McGlothern’s path has been different. He joined the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent and spent three camps with the team before being waived with an injury designation around this August’s cutdown deadline. McGlothern has appeared in 15 NFL games, with 50 defensive snaps and 37 special teams snaps, but he has never started.
Because the Packers’ practice squad is full, adding any of the four tryout players would require another corresponding move. Green Bay has already run through a long list of post-cutdown visits, including quarterbacks Jack Plummer and Cam Miller, running backs Phil Mafah, Ian Wheeler and Bankston, receivers Nick Nash, Bryce Oliver, Quincy Skinner Jr. and Coleman Owen, tight end Cody Hardy, linemen Cordell Volson, Mekhi Becton, Robert Jones and Kevin Zeitler, defensive linemen Zxavian Harris, Eric Johnson II, Jalen Hunt, Gabe Hall and David Blay, edge rusher Cruz Smith, linebackers Jones and Paul, corners Ambry Thomas, Bryant and McGlothern, and safeties Sanoussi Kane, Kahlef Hailassie, John Saunders Jr., Chris Edmonds, Wande Owens and Juanyeh Thomas.
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