Packers wide receiver Christian Watson has not played this season while rehabbing from a torn ACL that ended his 2024 season in Week 18. He returned to practice Oct. 6, with his 21-day window set to expire Oct. 27.<\/p>\n
Watson said on Wednesday that he will return to the field for Sunday Night Football. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal and my plan is to play this week,\u201d Watson said, adding that he felt ready last week.<\/p>\n
Watson remained limited in Wednesday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n
The Packers practiced without kicker Brandon McManus (right quad), defensive lineman Luke Van Ness and wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks (calf). <\/p>\n
Offensive guard Aaron Banks (groin), offensive tackle Anthony Belton (ankle), cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee), running back Josh Jacobs (calf), safety Xavier McKinney (ankle\/knee), offensive lineman Zach Tom (back), safety Evan Williams (back) and defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt (knee) were limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers wide receiver Christian Watson has not played this season while rehabbing from a torn ACL that ended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-245432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}