OTA WORKOUTS NOTES/PICS

[packers11]

And Corey Williams...

4 total...

[TopHat]

ADDITIONAL OTA PICS

http://www.jsonline.com/site/photographerphotos/gallery.aspx?catid=602

[Iron Mike]

OMG--is that Bubba actually *gulp* CATCHING A PASS??????

[BallHawk]

Nice sig, Mike.

[RashanGary]

This off season is getting me drunk on kool aid. Why do I like seeing these guys together? I don't know, but for some reason I just think we are in for a special year on defense.

Kampman
Hawk
Harris
Woodson
Barnett
Harrell
Collins
C Williams
Jenkins
Pickett
KGB
Poppinga
I'm drunk because I think Manuel is going to step up with his health this year.

[RashanGary]

And Corey Williams...

4 total...

Holy Shit, that's like Mike Shermans TC attendance.

[Brandon494]

Are these camps mandatory?

Did you even read the article?

[retailguy]

No. Voluntary.

Yes. that's why they all have to be "excused" if they don't show up! right.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I know all players are cut, but Brandon Jackson looks really cut.

[HarveyWallbangers]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=613339

Jackson doesn't see sights in L.A.
Rookie studies playbook after NFL promo duties
By TODD ROSIAK, JSO

Green Bay - Forced to travel to Los Angeles to do promotional work for the National Football League rather than attend the Green Bay Packers' minicamp two weeks ago, rookie Brandon Jackson did what he could to make his trip a productive one from a work standpoint.

So rather than hit the town with his fellow first- and second-round draft picks in their free time - which Jackson said they had plenty of - he instead spent the majority of time in his hotel room, poring over the portions of his playbook he brought with him.

Considering the Packers weren't installing anything new on offense at that point, Jackson wasn't missing much back in Green Bay. Nevertheless, he wasn't pleased with having to be away, considering he's fighting for the starting running-back job with Vernand Morency.

"I was real frustrated," he recounted Thursday, shortly after taking part in the second of 12 voluntary practices the Packers have scheduled in June. "But, knowing what you got to do, I really didn't care after that. I had to go, so I went, did that. That's done and over with. I'm back out here, I'm happy and I'm just ready to go."

It has been a hectic month or so for Jackson since being drafted in the second round, 63rd overall, by the Packers.

He took part in a rookie orientation minicamp the weekend after the draft in early May, and aside from his trip to the West Coast has been in Green Bay most of the rest of the time.

Last week was a rookies-only, four-day series of workouts in the weight room, coupled with classroom work. Now Jackson's in the midst of a crucial stretch of practices that will give him his first taste of what the Packers will be running in the upcoming season.

"He's been excellent," coach Mike McCarthy said of Jackson's work thus far. "He's very willing."

It will be crucial for Jackson to catch on quickly if he is to unseat Morency, a third-year player who has the benefit of a year's experience in Green Bay's offense from which to draw.

He's familiar with the broad strokes, having played in a West-Coast attack in college that utilized zone blocking, as the Packers do. Still, he left school after his junior season, and has barely more than a half-season's experience as a starter.

"I feel like I'm on track right now with learning the plays," Jackson said. "I feel like when the new installation comes in, I kind of know what to do because coming from Nebraska . . . I got the grasp of it. It's just a little different terminology. When I get that, everything's cool."

Vying to replace departed starter Ahman Green, Jackson, like Morency, figures to give the Packers a different look in the backfield.

Both are listed at 5 feet 10 inches and 212 pounds, and although they might not pack quite the punch Green did at the line of scrimmage, both are faster and present more of a breakaway threat.

"It's really kind of the way we've gone with the running back group," McCarthy said. "They're not the tallest individuals but you look at every one of them, they have excellent lower body strength, and I think . . . as you look at that group that'll be a constant."

Morency ran with the No. 1 offense Thursday, as he has throughout the minicamps, but Jackson got a few opportunities to show what he could do as well.

He runs low to the ground, is quick in and out of his cuts and appears to have plenty of speed to burn.

"I'm not really worried about that," Jackson said when asked about Morency's current role with the No. 1 offense. "Coach told me don't worry about that, as long as I get back in and get in with the pace that we're going at right now."

Indeed, one of McCarthy's mantras during the minicamps was jobs weren't won and lost based on what had transpired thus far in the off-season.

Even so, Jackson is shooting to displace Morency at some point, a goal he made clear Thursday.

"That's every guy's outlook, to become the No. 1 guy at his position," he said. "Yes, I want to be the No. 1 guy. Can I say I'm the No. 1 guy right now? No. But, I want to, and I know it's going to take a lot of hard work because we've got four or five other running backs that are great and they want to do the same thing: They want to start.

"I know it's going to be a lot of competition out there."

[HarveyWallbangers]

[Joemailman]

I know all players are cut, but Brandon Jackson looks really cut.

Well, maybe not all players

[Iron Mike]

Well, maybe not all players

Looks like Grady's slimmed down a bit:

[rpiotr01]

Who's the guy wearing Ahman's number?

[woodbuck27]

Who's the guy wearing Ahman's number?

30 Arliss Beach RB 5-10 222 23 2 Kentucky FA-06

and to compre their size.

32 Brandon Jackson RB 5-10 212 21 R Nebraska D2-07