A week after shutting down defensive tackle Kenny Clark for the season with an elbow injury, the team officially placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday, ESPN’s Field Yates tweets. 
He will be replaced on the roster by tackle Alex Light, who is coming off a one-game PED suspension, ESPN’s Rob Demovsky tweets.
The injury that sidelined the breakout defensive lineman is not expected to need surgery, but with the Packers officially out of the playoff race, the team decided to sit him for the final three games.
In his third season in the league, Clark, 23, enjoyed his finest as a pro, boasting a career-high six sacks and equalling last’s season’s personal best of 55 tackles. The 2016 first-round pick emerged as the anchor of the Packers defensive line and as one of the league’s best all-around defensive tackles. When he went down with an injury, Clark was ranked by Pro Football Focus as the league’s ninth-best interior lineman.
In May, the Packers are expected to pick up his fifth-year option that will keep him in Green Bay through the 2020 campaign.
Packers hit big with this guy. He is versatile and IMO could play in any scheme and produce. Going to be a force to be reckoned with for a while. I am a big fan of him and would rather see him in honolulu blue.
Yup i was very skeptical of the pick at the time but he has proven to be a stud.
I think he was only 20 when he was drafted so remarkably, TT saw something in him and saw an upside. I like him in Green and Gold!