{"id":272696,"date":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:01:06","slug":"report-with-nate-hobbs-out-multiple-games-packers-have-interest-in-asante-samuel-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272696\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: With Nate Hobbs out multiple games, Packers have interest in Asante Samuel Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packers cornerback Nate Hobbs will <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packersnews.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2025\/11\/03\/packers-cornerback-nate-hobbs-expected-to-miss-time-with-sprained-mcl\/87073948007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">miss at least the next two<\/a> games with a sprained MCL in his knee, Ryan Wood of PackersNews reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs missed Week 1 recovering from surgery for a torn meniscus, but his current injury is not in the same knee. An MRI on Monday revealed the small tear in his MCL, a grade 1 sprain that will not require surgery, according to Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs had played only 23 defensive snaps total the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>With Hobbs sidelined, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6778334\/2025\/11\/04\/packers-trade-deadline-tight-end-cornerback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Packers are considering<\/a> signing free agent cornerback Asante Samuel Jr., Matt Schneidman of TheAthletic.com reports. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-cb-asante-samuel-cleared-to-play-ready-for-free-agent-visits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Doctors recently cleared Samuel<\/a> for football activities after he underwent spinal fusion surgery in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers cornerback Nate Hobbs will miss at least the next two games with a sprained MCL in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-272696","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\/272696","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=272696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}