The Green Bay Packers are already without Sam Shields in their secondary and they now may also be without Damarious Randall.
Those, ladies and gentlemen, are your top two corners.
At least on the depth chart… Randall hasn’t played like a top corner since Shields went down with a concussion.
Regardless, Randall is listed as questionable with a groin injury on the Friday injury report.
If Randall sits against the New York Giants, the top spot would go to another second-year player, Quinten Rollins. LaDarius Gunter, an undrafted free agent from the 2015 class, would also start. The third corner would be undrafted rookie Josh Hawkins.
You may remember him as the guy who gave up the 73-yarder to Marvin Jones when the Packers played the Lions two weeks ago.
That lineup is less than desirable with Eli Manning on the slate.
However, we also suspect safety Micah Hyde would see a lot of time at corner if Randall is out. That’s a role he’s proven adept at in a pinch.
For the Packers, the question is simple. Do you run Randall out there if he’s less than 100 percent, which the questionable designation suggests he is?
And the obvious answer is no because a cornerback that can’t run is useless.
Randall will be starting Sunday night. The end.
Agree. One thing on the phantom groin injury. In the Minnesota game in the second quarter (13:38) Randall was covering Diggs and at the end of the play Randall went down to the turf like he had hurt something on his left leg. Randall did not come out but at the time it looked like he twisted an ankle. He may have tweaked a groin. That is the play I would look at as the start of Randall’s problems.
Even if he could run he’s still bad at covering. I mean one move and you got him lost.
Sometimes that is’nt even necessary cause his attention lies elsewhere, is yards away or just comes to late.
DC’s schemes doesn’t help with that too of course.
What an amazing scouting department we have hum? Or rather, what an amazing GM!
Play, don’t play, it doesn’t matter.
The Packers may as well just start the scoring at 30-0 Giants and start the game in the 3rd quarter. That way we don’t have to go through the pain of watching the corners get beat every other play.
Oh yeah, and the other benefit is then the Giants will go into a defense that Rodgers may actually be able to move the ball on.