Malik Willis makes due with vomit ball, run-heavy attack in Packers' win

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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Matt LaFleur didn't ask Malik Willis to throw often on Sunday in his first career start for the Green Bay Packers. After all, how much could the Green Bay Packers coach ask of a quarterback who was traded to his team just 20 days earlier?

In a run-heavy game plan that worked just well enough to eke out a 16-10 victory over the Tennessee Titans at Lambeau Field, Willis threw only 14 passes in place of the injured Jordan Love (knee). It's not that LaFleur wanted Willis to throw much more than that, but he did want at least one more pass.

With the Packers leading 10-0 and facing a third-and-10 from their own 47-yard line late in the first half,…