Green Bay Packers: Defensive Battles Shaping Up for Training Camp

June 16, 2012   ·   Bob Fox   ·   Jump to comments

Head coach Mike McCarthy was pretty succinct when he talked about training camp at his press conference after the Green Bay Packers ended their three-day minicamp on Thursday.
"This is going to be a damn competitive training camp, no doubt about it", McCarthy said.
Indeed it shall be, as the Packers are very deep at a number of positions. Ted Thompson and McCarthy will have a number of difficult decisions to make about putting together a final roster. I would not be surprised to see a couple of trades to open a roster spot for a couple of players.
Training camp is about six weeks away, but looking at the roster and guessing how many players will be kept at a certain position, jobs will be tough to come by. Here is how I see the roster shaping up.
QB- Three
RB- Three
FB- One
OL- Nine
TE- Four
WR- Six
K- One
P- One
LS- One
That adds up to 29 roster spots. That leaves 24 spots open for the defense. I see the defense sha...

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