{"id":418667,"date":"2026-10-04T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:48:36","slug":"edgerrin-cooper-carted-off-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418667\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgerrin Cooper carted off vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Green Bay Packers starting Will linebacker Edgerrin Cooper was carted off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for what appears to be a non-contact ankle injury. Cooper dropped to the ground awkwardly on a third-down blitz versus the Buccaneers, grabbed his ankle and needed assistance to leave the field. You can find the video of the play linked below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cooper\u2019s replacement at the position has been Isaiah McDuffie, who backs up both the Mike (Zaire Franklin) and Will (Cooper) positions on defense. McDuffie is also a core special teamer who is a year-long team captain on that unit. If there were ever another injury at the position, it\u2019s likely that Ty\u2019Ron Hopper would take over the Will position with the remaining healthy linebacker (be it Franklin or McDuffie) playing the Mike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">So far, the Packers haven\u2019t made an announcement about Cooper\u2019s injury. We\u2019ll keep you updated when any new information drops on his status. Green Bay also dealt with two other injuries on Sunday, as running back Chris Brooks and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt were both banged up in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cooper has been ruled out, and the Packers are calling it an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers starting Will linebacker Edgerrin Cooper was carted off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[165550,58924,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-green-bay-packers-injuries","tag-green-bay-packers-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}