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Rob Demovsky, ESPN Staff WriterNov 21, 2024, 06:10 PM ET
- Rob Demovsky is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2013. Demovsky is a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the NSSA. You can follow him on Twitter at @RobDemovsky.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The right knee injury that cornerback Jaire Alexander has been dealing with over the past three weeks — and the one that forced him out of his return last Sunday after only 10 snaps – could see him sit out more time, but the Green Bay Packers cornerback doesn’t expect his season is over.
Alexander told The Athletic on Thursday that he sustained a torn PCL when he hobbled off the field on the final defensive play of the Oct. 28 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Alexander sat out the next game, a Week 9 loss to the Detroit Lions. He returned to practice after the Week 10 bye and went into last week’s game against the Chicago Bears expecting to play on a limited rep count but dropped out before halftime.
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“I stayed here the whole bye week trying to hopefully come back and make an impact for the team,” Alexander told The Athletic. “It was a game-time decision at that, so we didn’t know … until, you know, few minutes before the game if I would play or not.”
Alexander, a two-time All Pro, did not say what a reasonable timetable for his return.
“I just need more than 21 days of non-contact,” he said. “It just needed more time because to take three weeks off and not do much, that still wasn’t enough.”
Earlier this season, he sat out Weeks 4 and 5 games because of groin and quadriceps injuries. Since the start of the 2021 season, when he appeared in only four regular-season games because of a shoulder injury, he has played in only 34 of a possible 61 games — or 56%.
All but one of the 27 games he sat out was because of injury; he served a one-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team in 2023.
Second-year pro Carrington Valentine probably would start Sunday against the 49ers if Alexander can’t play. Alexander did not practice Wednesday or Thursday this week.
