GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The regular-season opener no longer looks like a pipe dream for Bryan Bulaga. It's almost a certainty now.
The Green Bay Packers' veteran right tackle was activated off the physically unable to perform list on Friday, less than nine months after he tore the ACL in his right knee.
"He just passed his physical today, so Bryan Bulaga will practice in a limited return mode," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Friday. "I know he's excited about the news that he got this morning from Dr. [Pat] McKenzie.
It was a little more than a week ago when McCarthy surprisingly said he felt good about Bulaga's chance to be ready for the regular-season opener.