Whenever both of your team’s offensive tackles are injured, it’s natural to ask who will keep your quarterback standing up in the pocket. For the 2022 Green Bay Packers, it’s not just that Pro Bowlers David Bakhtiari or Elgton Jenkins haven’t returned to full-contract football in mid-August, it’s compounded by the fact that Billy Turner and Dennis Kelly — who started a combined 17 games at tackle in 2021 — are no longer on the squad. Oh, yeah and the quarterback in question is a back-to-back MVP who has threatened retirement the last two offseasons.
Pressure makes diamonds and busts pipes, and, even though Jenkins has been activated off of the physically unable to perform list, there’s going to be a lot of pressure on the Packers’ young offensive linemen early on in the season.