Paul Bretl | 8/18/2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. — In what was a make-shift practice on Monday for the Packers that included 7-on-7 periods to accommodate Jordan Love as he works his way back from thumb surgery, Rasheed Walker was a full participant for the first time in recent weeks.
Walker had been dealing with a groin injury that kept him sidelined during the Family Night scrimmage and the Packers’ preseason opener against the New York Jets.
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He returned to practice last week, which included participating in the joint practice with Indianapolis, but Walker was limited in those sessions. He then did not play in Green Bay’s second preseason game.
“No one likes having injuries and stuff, but I feel like I play my best and I’m more valuable to the team when I’m healthy, so I had to take some time to get back healthy, and I had a minor injury,” Walker said at this locker on Monday.
“But coming back, I feel like I’ve picked up right where I left off, but when I came back today, I just tried to just be really on top of my stuff to really show myself that I haven’t really dropped off or anything.”
With Aaron Banks sidelined during Monday’s practice, Walker would take all of the left tackle reps while Jordan Morgan played left guard.
We had heard all offseason that there would be an open competition at left tackle, but early on in training camp, that didn’t necessarily materialize. With Elgton Jenkins on the NFI list initially, Morgan saw mostly guard reps while Walker was at left tackle.
However, that changed quickly in recent weeks. Not only has Morgan seen his snaps come with the first team and at left tackle, but he’s made the most of those opportunities as well.
As LaFleur said on Sunday, this is “100%” a competition.
“I just come to work every day and go to work,” Walker said. “That’s all you can do. I’m a team first guy. I’m with the Green Bay Packers, so shoot, I’m gonna come to work every day, do my job.”
Although Walker finds himself in the midst of a competition at left tackle, it’s not as if he’s performed poorly for the Packers. Not to say that there isn’t room for growth, but overall, Walker has provided Green Bay with a steady presence at one of the game’s most important positions, which includes him making 34 starts over the previous two seasons.
Given all of that, for many if they were in Walker’s shoes, it could be easy to be frustrated with the circumstances he finds himself in–competing for a job during a contract year. But that isn’t how Walker views this at all.
“Honestly it’s just a blessing to still be playing football, like I always say,” Walker said. “You have to still be playing with my abilities and stuff and just look at every day as an opportunity, so I feel like I had a good practice today. We gonna watch film. I’m gonna try to get better tomorrow.”
There is not just one week of training camp that remains. The Packers will have a padded practice on Tuesday, a joint practice with Seattle on Thursday, and then their final preseason game on Saturday.
In a perfect world, knowing who the starting left tackle is sooner rather than later can be beneficial when it comes to building chemistry up front. However, as we’ve seen from the Packers before, they certainly aren’t afraid to rotate players in-game during the regular season either.
So just because camp is winding down, that may not mean a decision is near.
“If we think these guys are good enough to be starters, and we just rotate guys I’m comfortable with that,” Adam Stenavich said early on in training camp. “I really don’t care. So we might have, you know, six or seven guys playing in a game consistently. So yeah, again, we’ve got to see how it goes.”