{"id":378884,"date":"2025-12-31T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378884\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:22:07","slug":"packers-make-7-roster-moves-ahead-of-week-18s-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378884\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers make 7 roster moves ahead of Week 18\u2019s action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Green Bay officially announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/77364\/packers-claim-former-draft-pick-and-chicago-bears-defensive-tackle-jonathan-ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addition of defensive tackle Jonathan Ford<\/a>, a 2022 seventh-round pick of the Packers. Ford was claimed off waivers from the Chicago Bears. Along with the addition of Ford, though, the team waived defensive tackle Quinton Bohanna, who was added to the 53-man roster after the Devonte Wyatt injury earlier this month. Bohanna only played one game for Green Bay, last week\u2019s action against the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Packers also added cornerbacks Shemar Bartholomew and Jaylin Simpson to the 53-man roster from the practice squad. Simpson was brought in in August and is a hybrid cornerback and safety. The former 2024 draft pick was actually called up to the gameday roster against the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving, but he didn\u2019t see live action in the game. Bartholomew was signed to the practice squad in Week 14 after previously spending time with the Carolina Panthers and Minnesota Vikings practice squads this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So with the additions of Ford, Bartholomew and Simpson to the 53-man roster and the losses of Hadden, Riley and Bohanna, the team still has one open roster spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the promotion of both Bartholomew and Simpson, the team had two open spots available on the practice squad. The team also filled one of those spots on Tuesday with the signing of running back Damien Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Martinez, a two-time All-Pac 12 back, was one of the bigger names in the transfer portal in the 2024 class. While he didn\u2019t have the same success at Miami, where he ended up transferring to, he was ranked as the 101st overall player in the 2025 class, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nflmockdraftdatabase.com\/big-boards\/2025\/consensus-big-board-2025?pos=RB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per the consensus draft board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Surprisingly, Martinez ended up getting drafted in the seventh round of April\u2019s draft by the Seattle Seahawks and didn\u2019t make the team\u2019s final roster. After being released from the Seahawks\u2019 practice squad during the 2025 season, he\u2019s had workouts with the Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Martinez is still only 21 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Look for the Packers to potentially make more moves this week, as Green Bay still has a spot to fill on the 53-man roster and the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay officially announced the addition of defensive tackle Jonathan Ford, a 2022 seventh-round pick of the Packers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[18813,18811,18815,349,99],"class_list":["post-378884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","tag-green-bay-packers-news","tag-green-bay-packers-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378884","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=378884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}