GREEN BAY, Wis. – With a short turnaround for Saturday night’s playoff game at the San Francisco 49ers, the Green Bay Packers did not practice on Tuesday. If they would have practiced, cornerback Jaire Alexander would have been limited participation.
That’s noteworthy. Alexander rolled his ankle at practice last week but rehabbed his way into a starring role in the playoff victory over the Dallas Cowboys with a critical first-quarter interception that helped give the Packers a quick 14-0 lead. However, he turned the ankle while coming up to make a tackle with about 5 minutes remaining in the third quarter.
Alexander did not return to action, and it had nothing to do with the lopsided score.
“I don’t think he would have gone back in, but I don’t know,” coach Matt LaFleur said on Monday. “I think we’ll know more throughout the course of the week and, hopefully, he’ll be OK to play because he brings a lot to our team. And it was cool to see him in a game of this magnitude go play the way he did.”
LaFleur placed 15 players on his initial injury report of the week. That includes outside linebacker Kingsley Enagbare, who suffered a significant knee injury late in the game. He had a team-high two quarterback hits against the Cowboys.
