The Packers are still waiting on Josh Jacobs, but they got a small break in the middle of all this uncertainty: the games he’s missing now should count toward any eventual suspension.
Jacobs sat out Green Bay’s Week 1 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, a 39-22 NFC North defeat that made his absence easy to feel. He remains on the commissioner’s exempt list after a May incident involving him and his former girlfriend, which means he cannot practice or play until the situation is resolved.
The league is still carrying out its own independent investigation to determine how long any suspension might be. For now, there’s no official word on the length of that punishment.
What is clear, according to Jonathan Jones of The Athletic, is that the time Jacobs spends on the exempt list will be credited if and when a suspension is handed down.
"When he is eventually suspended, he will be credited with time served," Jones stated in a feature out on Saturday. "For example, if after three games on the exempt list Jacobs is suspended six games by the league, he will be eligible to return in Week 7 against the Lions."
Jones added, "He would have to pay back the three game checks he received while on the exempt list."
That at least spares the Packers from losing Jacobs twice for the same stretch. But if the league settles on a suspension as long as the six-game example Jones used, Green Bay could still be without him for a while longer.
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