When Randall Cobb landed on his right shoulder Saturday against the Eagles, he thought he had broken his collarbone.
So his relief was as tangible as the Packers’ when he found out it was merely a shoulder sprain.
“I don’t plan on missing a game,” Cobb said, via Ryan Wood of 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 then what we all thought it was in the beginning. . . .
“Obviously, it could’ve been a lot worse. For not being what we thought it could’ve been is definitely a blessing.”
With Jordy Nelson out for the year with a torn ACL, they need him at full strength this year. Cobb wasn’t practicing yesterday, and he won’t play in the preseason finale (such that he would have anyway). And he said that even if he doesn’t practice prior to the Sept. 13 opener against the Bears, he thinks he’ll be fine to play.
“I don’t think it really matters,” he said. “I’m going to go out and play football whenever I’m on the field. I didn’t practice much going into the Bears back in 2013, and I came back after 10 weeks [recovering from a broken fibula]. So I don’t think it really matters.”
While I’m sure his coaches will love the fact their carefully planned practices aren’t necessary, they can at least take comfort in the fact Cobb should be back in the lineup by the time the season starts.
