{"id":64626,"date":"2024-08-07T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=64626"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:50:52","slug":"packers-first-round-pick-jordan-morgan-will-miss-preseason-opener-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/packers-first-round-pick-jordan-morgan-will-miss-preseason-opener-with-shoulder-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers first-round pick Jordan Morgan will miss preseason opener with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jordan-morgan-65798\/\">Jordan Morgan<\/a><\/strong>, the Packers first-round draft pick, won\u2019t play in Green Bay\u2019s preseason opener against the Cleveland Browns. <\/p>\n<p>Packers coach Matt LaFleur announced the news, Wednesday. Morgan injured his shoulder, Tuesday, the same day his name appeared on the first team of Green Bay\u2019s first depth chart of the season. However, LaFleur said Morgan should be ready for the season opener next month. The coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobDemovsky\/status\/1821198608911216756\">said the shoulder injury was nothing \u201clong term.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Packers drafted Morgan, the former Arizona star, with the 25th pick of first round pick of April\u2019s NFL Draft. Green Bay wanted to select a tackle, with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/david-bakhtiari-31444\/\">David Bakhtiari<\/a><\/strong> out of the Packers picture. Morgan did play left tackle in college, but he shifted inside to guard in Green Bay. You can check out the full depth chart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/depth-chart\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>LaFleur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/matt-lafleur-announces-jordan-love-will-play-in-first-packers-preseason-game\/\">will play the starters<\/a>, including quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jordan-love-65676\/\">Jordan Love<\/a><\/strong>, against the Browns. But the Packers coach wasn\u2019t sure how many snaps the more experienced players would see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll just take it a day at a time and one game at a time and decide what (Love) needs,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2024\/08\/06\/packers-starters-will-play-in-preseason-opener-including-jordan-love\/74624522007\/\">LaFleur told<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2024\/08\/06\/packers-starters-will-play-in-preseason-opener-including-jordan-love\/74624522007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporters<\/a>. \u201cWe have a plan in place right now, but subject to change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/packers-first-round-pick-jordan-morgan-will-miss-preseason-opener-with-shoulder-injury\/\">Packers first-round pick Jordan Morgan will miss preseason opener with shoulder injury<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Morgan, the Packers first-round draft pick, won\u2019t play in Green Bay\u2019s preseason opener against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64663,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64626\/revisions\/64663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}