GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers released Jack Podlesny on Wednesday, cutting the kicking competition to a two-man battle between Anders Carlson and Greg Joseph.
This had been the thought all along, that Podlesny, the rookie, would battle Joseph, the Vikings’ kicker the past three seasons, with the winner of that battle advancing to challenge the incumbent, Carlson, at training camp.
During the final segment of the final day of Packers minicamp, teammates surrounded the three kickers – cheering, waving and shooting water from their water bottles – for a 51-yard field goal. Podlesny went first and was wide right while the others split the uprights.