In sunday’s NFC wild-card playoff matchup in dallas, the green bay packers will be a key player on either side of the football.
On the team’s injury report, receiver christian watson and cornerback jaire alexander are questionable. coach matt lafleur said last week that he used “gamesmanship” with watson’s situation, predicting that his top receiver would be unavailable against the chicago bears.
Watson’s status is “legit,” he said this week, indicating that he has improved and that the chances are much higher that he will return from his hamstring injury to the cowboys. The fear surrounding alexander’s ankle injury, lafleur said, is also valid. “we’re just giving him up to game time to sort of figure it out,” he said. He would legitimately be a game-time decision,” said aj dillon, who isn’t a quarterback. Dillon missed last week’s game due to a stinger he had received the previous week in minnesota.
Every other packers player practiced on friday. Due to a snowstorm that forced the packers to reroute their game to dallas for an hour, the team stayed indoors. Since missing last week’s game with a chest injury, receiver romeo doubs has been recalled from the injury report, ensuring he will return on sunday.
