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Watch: Sights and Sounds From Packers Practice

The Green Bay Packers returned to the practice field on Wednesday as they get ready for Sunday at the Atlanta Falcons. Here are some of the scenes from practice.
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Watch: Sights and Sounds From Packers Practice
Watch: Sights and Sounds From Packers Practice

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – There are only three Week 2 games between 1-0 teams. One of them is set for Sunday: Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons.

Green Bay’s perennially porous run defense, which played well against the Chicago Bears’ explosive rushing attack last week, will face another big test this week.

Tyler Allgeier, a fifth-round pick last year who topped 1,000 rushing yards as a rookie, rushed 15 times for 75 yards (5.0 average) and two touchdowns. First-round pick Bijan Robinson, one of the best running back prospects in years and was selected eighth overall this year, carried 10 times for 56 yards and added six receptions with one touchdown in his NFL debut.

Combined, they got the ball on 34 of the Falcons’ 48 offensive plays and scored all three touchdowns in a 24-10 victory over Carolina.

“I want to compliment him and he wants to compliment me,” Robinson said. “And then the different things we can do like run routes, catch the ball out of the backfield or play receiver, that's what makes us unique. So, I think it was pretty cool to be a part of that with him. Now we’ve got to keep it rolling.”

To keep those two in check will require another strong defensive performance. With quarterback Justin Fields out of the equation, the Bears’ other 20 running plays provided 63 yards.

A key will be Green Bay’s inside linebackers. De’Vondre Campbell, who spent his first four NFL seasons with the Falcons, had seven tackles against Chicago. Quay Walker had four tackles and a pick-six in which he suffered a concussion during a goal-line collision.

Walker did not practice on Wednesday and remains in the concussion protocol but did work on the side with a trainer.

“In the moment, I had no idea. I thought he was tired,” coach Matt LaFleur said on Wednesday of if he knew Walker was injured in the moment.

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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