Practice No. 15 goes 2 hours and 8 minutes and ends with two botched 2-minutes drills.  Demovsky  [It was a padded practice.  TGR]

INJURIES:

Packers released LS Peter Bowden and S Tyler Coyle to make room for LB Chris Russell and RB Nate McCrary.  Schneidman  [I am not understanding this.  It isn’t like Orzech has been consistent.  Has Bowden been that bad or have the Packers predetermined the outcome at long snapper long ago?  Coyle did not play poorly at all.  The Packers just have 5 locks (McKinney, Bullard, Williams, Olapado, and AJ Johnson, at safety, with Zayne Anderson and even Bennie Sapp also waiting in the wings.  TGR]

New injuries: None.

Also missed practice: None.

Returned to practice: LB Quay Walker (dropped out on Tuesday), CB Carrington Valentine (hamstring - individual drills only Wednesday), G/C Jacob Monk (dropped out on Tuesday).  [Jordan Morgan only did individual drills and that while wearing a harness on his left shoulder, per Huber.  TGR]

Old injuries: RB MarShawn Lloyd (hamstring), RB Jarveon Howard (ankle), DE Keshawn Banks (groin), LB Edgerrin Cooper (hip).

Bill Huber

PERSONNEL:

For the team portion, as has been the case, Rasheed Walker was at left tackle, followed by Elgton Jenkins, Josh Myers, Sean Rhyan, and Zach Tom. On the second unit, Andre Dillard and Kadeem Telfort continued to take turns at both right and left tackle, and we again saw Travis Glover get some right tackle snaps with the twos as well. With Rhyan starting, the three interior players with the twos have been Lecitus Smith, Royce Newman, and Jacob Monk. Caleb Jones was at tackle with the third team.  Bretl

OFFENSE:

Good day for the offensive line in 1 on 1s. Dillard had good reps vs Gary at RT and won vs Mosby at LT. Newman has been steady in drill all camp. Morton pulled off a wicked spin move to beat Telfort at RT.   2)  Delayed McDuffie blitz but the O line holds up and Love connects with Kraft for 15 yards to the 2 yard line.  Hodkiewicz

Rashan Gary, who dominated the first half of camp, hasn’t made much headway since Tom returned from his torn pectoral.  Huber [Tom took no reps in One on Ones, though.  TGR]   

Emanuel Wilson continues his strong camp with a shifty run inside for a solid gain. Clifford to Hicks for a good pickup on the next play.  2)  Gary with back to back run stops behind the LOS. One on Jacobs. One on Dillon. Run game is a major struggle right now for the offense. Love with a perfect throw to Kraft on a corner route. Williams in coverage. Down at the 1. Love to Doubs on a fade. Jaire pbu.  3)  LVN is having a nice start to practice. He and McDuffie combine for a stop if Wilson for no gain. Love with the keeper on a read option for a nice pickup. Defense didn’t see that coming. Christian Young all over a wr screen to Melton Offense tries a quick throw outside to Toure. Guess what - defense all over that too. Clifford rolls left, had Melton open but can’t connect on the throw on the run. Tough throw but it was there.  Herman

Really nice block by Dillon against Smith on a Jacobs run. Seeing some 2 RB sets over the last week.  Bretl

One on Ones:

A few OL v. DL 1-on-1s: 

Walker beats Smith [Preston has been quiet all camp.  TGR]

Monk beats Ford 

Cox beats Glover 

Wyatt beats Jenkins 

Telfort beats Enagbare [Kingsley Enagbare has been quiet all camp.  TGR]

Myers beats Slaton 

Van Ness beats Jones [Disappointed in Caleb J.  Will LVN ever get #1 reps? TGR]

Bretl

In the pass-blocking/pass-rushing drill: 

Andre Dillard beat Rashan Gary while at right tackle

Arron Mosby beat Rashan Gary while at left tackle.

For the No. 1 offensive line: 

Rasheed Walker beat Preston Smith. 

Elgton Jenkins beat Devonte Wyatt.  [Bretl has Wyatt > Jenkins.  Not sure here. TGR]

Josh Myers put TJ Slaton on the ground.

Sean Rhyan beat Kenny Clark. 

Right tackle Zach Tom did not take any reps.

Huber  

Red zone 1x1 highlights 

King pbu on Toure 

Doubs with a sick catch along the sidelines against Ballentine. Got his feet in. 

^Wicks SKYWALKS for a leaping td catch vs Nixon. [^ See Kruse tweet below.  TGR]

Jaire breaks up a pass for Watson 

McKinney pbu vs Musgrave 

Davis with a late pbu vs DuBose. DuBose has the td but Davis knocked it away at the very end.

Heath td vs Ballentine 

Wilson td vs Williams 

Rochell awesome coverage on Hicks. 

Wayne with a sick one handed catch for a td on a fade vs Green 

Toure beats Zayne easy 

Doubs with a win vs Ballentine on an awesome anticipation ball by Love 

DuBose over Sapp for a td 

Musgrave beats McKinney 

Watson smokes Jaire. Great route. Easy separation. 

Wicks and Nixon in an awesome battle. Great coverage but Wicks with a great hands.  TD.

Sims beats Williams on a corner route. 

Melton breaks Bullards ankles to the excitement of the wide receivers. Td. 

Heath beats Davis for an easy td.

 Herman

^ Dontayvion Wicks [vs. Nixon, same as above in the Hernan Red Zone Highlights.]. Kruse: "Wins against leverage. Physical through contact. Contested catch. This is high level" [route running].  [Kruse reposted video of this one on one in his twitter (X) page.  Nixon takes away the out route by positioning himself towards the sidelines but Wicks still makes the out route work, though with some bumps and a contested catch.  Fun to watch.  TGR]  Zach Kruse

Wicks gets away from Ballentine for a 5 yard TD Near pylon on an out. Ends red zone period.  Hodkiewicz

Pratt to Melton next. Pratt low key on fire today.  2)  Pratt now in with the twos. Emanuel Wilson with another nice runwith the 2’s. Showed off the burst. Pratt fires one for a comeback to Heath. Pratt fires again over the middle to Toure on a great throw - Williams knocks it out at the very end though. Incomplete Pratt drops sidearm to Davis who catches but falls down in the process. Nice job by 17 to avoid the ball getting batted down. Pratt with a dime deep down the right sidelines. King was in good coverage and it was a contested play but one Melton needs to find a way to come down with. Really nice stretch of play from Pratt.  Herman

Pratt just put a beautiful go deep on Melton but King breaks it up. Contested play.  Hodkiewicz  [Herman thought that Melton needed to come down with such a great pass.  TGR] 

Two Minute. 1:40 left. 0 timeouts. First and 10. Ball on own 35. Down by 7. 1’s up first. 

Love complete to Doubs short. Clock ticks. 

Love complete to Jacobs short. First down. Clock ticks. 

Love completes to Jacobs (one handed catch along the sideline. Gains 7. OOB 1:01 left. 

Love to Musgrave on a corner route. Complete and OOB. Beat McDuffie. First down. 

Ball on opposing 35. 0:56 left. Incomplete to Jacobs. 

Love to Watson for 10. First down. Clock ticks. 

Incomplete to Watson. Ballentine in coverage. May have had some contact. 

Love to Musgrave short. Clock ticks. 

Love to Wicks over the middle. Complete. Clock ticks and the clock runs out. Defense gets the stop.  Herman

2’s up next. Clifford at QB. Only down 3 in this scenario instead of 7: 

Clifford to DuBose for 10. Clock ticks. 

Clifford hell of a seam pass to Sims. Big gain. Clock ticks. 

Clifford checkdown to Merriweather. Good gain clock ticks. 

Clifford to DuBose. First down. Clock ticks. 

Clifford almost sacked by Mosby. Incomplete. 27 seconds left. Ball at the opposing 12.

Toure comes up with a catch but out of bounds to the right of the end zone. 

Christian Young sack. Clock ticks. 

Special teams runs on to try and get a field goal off. Travis Glover didn’t get off the field. Likely too many men. Joseph misses but the uprights were still moving as they tried to get it back on the field. Not sure how to count that one but defense wins either way.  Herman  [Clifford said he didn’t realize the Packers were down by only 3 points in this scenario, so he thought he needed a TD to tie.  For the number one offense the scenario was all the same but down a TD.  Clifford said he should have checked with the coaches.  TGR]

DEFENSE:

Wyatt and LVN in the backfield is becoming commonplace.  Kruse  [But it is often against the #2s.  TGR]

Jonathan Ford busts into the backfield on a Merriweather run to disrupt the play.  [It sounds like a rep against the number ones, but I am not sure.  TGR]  Finally Josh Jacobs finds some daylight on a run left for a nice gain. Love layers a throw perfectly between two defenders but it’s just outside of the reach of a diving Wicks. E Williams all over a dump off to Dillon.  2)  McDuffie again with a run stop. This time on Dillon. Dudes been all over the place. Now Emanuel Wilson loses yards on a run. Packers run defense is absolutely dominating right now Play action checkdown to E Wilson and there’s three defenders waiting for him. Clifford quick outside to Melton. Ballentine there for the quick stop.  Herman

Preston pressure, Love tries a throw across the hashes to Musgrave and Alexander picks it and keeps feet inbounds for INT.  [Nice to have a Preston Smith Sighting!  TGR]  2)  Slaton jumps, resulting in free play. McDuffie makes a fantastic play to sky for a deflection across the middle, which Walker picks.  Hodkiewicz  

Quay is doing team drills today. First play goes to Jacobs wide for a nice pickup. McDuffie all over a Jacobs run. He’s been awesome in run defense Jacobs toss outside - defense all over it again Quick motion throw to Kraft. Jaire all over it.  Herman

Increasingly, Kalen King has received more and more of the No. 2 reps in the slot. Huber

Every time you look up, Evan Williams is around the football. Just forced a third-down drop against Samori Toure over the middle.  Wood

Williams knocks out a would be catch by Toure across the middle.  Hodkiewicz

Cornerback Jaire Alexander had one of those vintage Alexander kind of days.  Huber  [Lock down.  PBU v. Doubs, INT v. Love, and a bunch of forced incompletions.  TGR]

SPECIAL TEAMS:

Greg Joseph went 3/7 today and Anders Carlson 4/6. For camp, I have Joseph at 50/61 (82%) and Carlson at 49/61 (80.3%) with the preseason opener included.  Schneidman

MISCELLANEOUS:

The offensive line’s pass blocking is improving.  The run blocking has not.  3 good runs today, one by Jacobs (with a nice block by Dillon) and two by Emanuel Wilson.  Otherwise, the defensive front stuffed the run again.  [Paul Bretl did not have much good to say about the pass or run blocking of the number 2 offensive line.  TGR]  Herman

Both Corey Ballentine and Kalen King have been working out of the slot in individual drills during training camp, but when the two are on the field together with the second unit, King is lined up in the nickel and Ballentine is on the boundary. However, when one of the starting cornerbacks gets a breather, it is Ballentine who is in before King. If the Packers only roster five cornerbacks, I would pick King over Ballentine because of his upside, but my guess is they find a way to get both on the roster.  [Ballentine held up at the boundary CB last season pretty well.  TGR]  Bretl

Rudy Ford signed with Carolina.  Kruse

Forgot to post these when I finished the other day. Best & Worst defensive grades from Packers/Browns: Best: 

Evan Williams +0.60 

Isaiah McDuffie +0.60 

Arron Mosby +0.60 

LVN +0.45 

Devonte Wyatt +0.30 

Javon Bullard +0.25 

AJJ +0.25

 Worst: 

Gemon Green -0.55 

James Ester -0.45 

Brenton Cox -0.40 

Kingsley Enagbare -0.25  Herman  August 14

My best & worst grades on offense for the Packers: Best: 

Sean Rhyan +0.85 

Jacob Monk +0.80 

Jordan Love +0.75 

Dontayvion Wicks +0.75 

Michael Pratt +0.70 

Joel Wilson +0.70 

Emanuel Wilson +0.65 

Grant DuBose +0.50 

Worst: 

Royce Newman -0.45 

Ben Sims -0.35 

Bo Melton -0.20  - One of the drops was pretty well behind him, the other was slightly behind him. One was an egregious block. Also had a catch, and did some really nice things as a blocker.  Herman, August 11. [I guess the first set of grades was done after watching All-22 or re-watching the game and this August 11 set of grades were more immediate.  Not sure.  TGR]

Defensive end Kingsley Enagbare beat right tackle Kadeem Telfort to get a tackle for loss against Emanuel Wilson. Rookie Travis Glover replaced Telfort for the next snap.  [Bill Huber noted that Pratt got snaps with the number twos and Dubose got reps with the number ones. TGR] Huber  

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