Already without Jordy Nelson for the entire season, all of Packer Land held its breath when his second, Randall Cobb, went down on the field last Saturday holding his shoulder.That injury, which turned out to be an A/C joint sprain, wasn't as serious as originally thought, and though the team listed him as questionable for the season opener in Chicago, Cobb unofficially listed himself eligible.
"I don't plan on missing a game," Cobb said, via the Green Bay Press Gazette. "I'm doing everything in my power to get back before then, but we still don't know severity. We've still got to get a lot of the swelling out. It definitely is a lot better than what we all thought it was in the beginning."
Cobb took a tumble in the Packers' third exhibition game against the Eagles at Lambeau Field last weekend, and after Nelson was officially placed on the injured reserve list with a torn ACL suffered the week before, the team is hoping he makes good on his prdiction.
While they have young options to take some of the load, they also have inexperience, and Cobb is a valuable leader who they feel can take Nelson's place for the duration. Cobb had a career-best last season with 91 receptions for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns.
"Obviously, it could've been a lot worse," Cobb said of his shoulder injury. "For not being what we thought it could've been is definitely a blessing."
The greatest blessing of all for the Packers, though, is seeing him take the field in Chicago.
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