Status of Year 2 Jumpers according to Mike McCarthy
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1. Kenny Clark - 5 QB pressures in 3 playoff games
2. Dean Lowry - 2 QB sacks in December“Kenny, if you just watch the progression of the season, his arrow was straight up,” McCarthy said at this year’s combine of Clark, the Packers’ first-round pick in 2016. “I thought he played extremely well the last six weeks. That’s something we need to build off of.”
3. Kyler Holy Mackrell - second on team in coverage tackles (nine)“He came on at the end of the year,” McCarthy said of Lowry, who recorded his two sacks in back-to-back weeks in December. “Get another year of weightlifting, and he can play the one and the three (technique).”
"We think its good cost savings that he can wear short sleeve shirts as proper business attire"
4. Blake Martinez - somehow pushed to bench by Joe Thomas*, after Martinez was injured and missed 3 gamesMcCarthy sees Fackrell, a third-round edge-rusher from Utah State, with a “good frame” (6-5, 245) suited for “10-12 pounds of lean muscle mass” this offseason. His biggest rookie highlight was a strip-sack of Giants QB Eli Manning in Week 5. ~snipped~
“If he doesn’t get hurt he probably would have played a ton more,” McCarthy said. “He was playing really well when he got that hamstring.”
“I think all these guys that fight through injuries, particularly when they’re young, early in their career, it needs to be evaluated and make sure they’re preparing themselves to get through that phase,” McCarthy said.
*Joe Thomas takes on the proud mantle of the Packer ILB who is at once, the most sound and reliable, but also the one who needs to be replaced the quickest.