Official Packers At Lions Discussion Thread

[Joemailman]

Rob Demovsky
@RobDemovsky

Packers roster moves today: RB Josh Jacobs added to the active roster from exempt status. WR/KR Coleman Owen signed to the active roster. DT Jordon Riley activated off PUP. EDGE Arron Mosby elevated from the practice squad to the active roster for game day.

[Fritz]

Owen and Moseby for ST in part because Hopper and McDuffie have to take up Franklin’s snaps.

Tough time to lose Franklin.

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Zach Kruse
@zachkruse2

Per @MikeGarafolo

Packers RB Josh Jacobs expected to get a "normal allotment of reps for a starter" today against the Lions.

[sharpe1027]

This is another "here we go again" injury season. Cooper - their best linebacker, a real difference-maker - out for the year, probably never the same when he does get back. Now Franklin, out for the game. So both starting linebackers. Free agent defensive lineman, Hargrave - gone for the year. Warren Brinson, another defensive lineman who was supposedly making that second-year jump, has yet to see the field. Jayden Reed, starting slot receiver, gone. Zach Backo-Bewele, starting right tackle, gone for the year, too.

I wonder if other teams get this many injuries over a season. Someone last year posted an interesting chart that showed the number of (important) injuries (I know that's somewhat subjective) each team had last year, and of course, the two Super Bowl participants were near the top in terms of least-number-of-important-players-injured.

The data seems to be that high injury rate means you're very unlikely to make the playoffs. After that it doesn't matter. Low injury rate has little to know correlation to winning it all.

Statistically, overall injury rates are a regular-season filter. High attrition keeps you out of the playoffs, period. But once the playoffs start, there is virtually zero correlation (r = -0.008) between season-long injury volume and winning the Super Bowl. At that point, cumulative IR numbers don't matter—it just comes down to whether your QB is upright and you don't have a cluster of injuries wiping out one specific unit (like O-line or secondary) in January.