3:46pm: Green Bay is activating Lloyd off injured reserve today, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Tom Silverstein. This is a procedural move, as the team will then place the running back on IR a second time due to the aforementioned hamstring aggravation. This would give the Packers the option to activate Lloyd after four games. Had they not done this, Lloyd’s initial IR-return window would have closed to end his season.
Lloyd already counts toward the team’s eight-activation total since he was designated for return August 26. As it stands, however, the second-year running back — who has proven to be incredibly injury-prone — is unlikely to be part of the Packers’ activation puzzle should they make the playoffs. The Pack still have five injury activations remaining.
11:58am: Packers running back MarShawn Lloyd has been on IR with a hamstring injury all season. The Packers opened his 21-day practice window on Dec. 1, but Lloyd recently suffered another hamstring injury, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Green Bay has just a few more days to activate Lloyd, whose chances of playing in 2025 may have “derailed,” Schefter notes. If so, it will end up as a lost season for Lloyd after he barely factored in as a rookie last year.
Lloyd impressed over three years between South Carolina and USC, leading the Packers to use a third-round pick on him in 2024. The idea was for the 5-foot-9, 220-pounder to immediately complement big-ticket free agent acquisition Josh Jacobs. Instead, multiple injuries and a bout of appendicitis limited Lloyd to one game last season.
With Lloyd largely unavailable a year ago, Emanuel Wilson emerged as a capable backup to Jacobs, who made his third Pro Bowl. That one-two punch remains in place. Jacobs leads the NFC with 13 rushing touchdowns and is just 110 yards away from hitting 1,000 for the fifth time in his career. Wilson has scored three times on the ground after doing so on four occasions last season.
Filling in for an injured Jacobs, Wilson hit the 100-yard mark (107 and two TDs on 28 carries) for the first time in his career in a win over the Vikings in Week 12. He has combined for just nine carries and 27 yards in three games since Jacobs returned, though, and Wilson’s YPC has fallen from 4.9 in 2024 to 3.9 this year.
Wilson has been less efficient in 2025, but he’ll continue as second in the Green Bay backfield pecking order as the 9-4-1 team gears up for a potential playoff run. Meanwhile, already almost halfway through his four-year rookie contract, Lloyd has tallied a meager 15 yards on six carries.
Wouldn’t be shocked if this kid never sees the field in a Packers uniform again. Gute values availability and Lloyd and to a lesser extent LVN can’t stay healthy.
I wonder why these procedural requirements are so multi faceted and complicated
Would he be the first player in NFL history to land on IR four times in his first two seasons?