{"id":888366,"date":"2026-10-20T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888366\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:40:14","slug":"josh-jacobs-to-get-full-week-of-practice-game-status-to-be-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888366\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Jacobs to get full week of practice, game status to be determined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packers <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/micah-parsons-wont-practice-this-week-packers-dont-rule-out-week-8-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">won\u2019t have<\/a> defensive end Micah Parsons back at practice this week, but they will have running back Josh Jacobs on the field as they prepare to face the Lions. <\/p>\n<p>Jacobs was removed from the Commissioner Exempt list on Monday and head coach Matt LaFleur said that he will get a full week of practice in his return to active duty. LaFleur said that Jacobs\u2019s status for the game against the Lions is \u201cto be determined\u201d by how things go in practice. That\u2019s also the case with how much he\u2019ll play if he is active.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel like he\u2019s in a pretty good spot,\u201d LaFleur said at his press conference. \u201cHe\u2019s been training, but he\u2019s missed the exposure to football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur said Jacobs has been \u201cengaged\u201d with the team during his time on paid leave by attending meetings and doing conditioning work, which gives LaFleur hope that he can provide \u201ca spark\u201d to the league\u2019s least-productive ground attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s an elite-level back,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cHe\u2019s certainly not going to hurt it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs ran for 2,258 yards and 29 touchdowns over his first two seasons in Green Bay and the Packers would welcome that kind of jolt to their offense as soon as possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers won\u2019t have defensive end Micah Parsons back at practice this week, but they will have running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-888366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888366","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=888366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}