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Rukkr Original NFL · GB By The Beat Guy Jul 31, 2026

Banks and Stackhouse off the PUP list. Tight end and secondary still the questions.

Aaron Banks and Nazir Stackhouse were activated from the physically unable to perform list on July 29, and for a team that spent December watching its depth evaporate, that's genuinely good news. Green Bay went 4-6 over its final ten games last season, the point differential flipping from positive to negative, and the through-line was always the same: the top of the roster held, the bottom gave out. Getting bodies back early in camp, before the pads are even on in earnest, is exactly the kind of small win this offseason needed.

The harder problems are still sitting there, though. Tucker Kraft played only eight games last season and the front office answered by signing Thomas Yassmin — a former Australian rugby player added on an international exemption — who slots in as the second tight end on the current depth chart. That's a creative solution to a real problem, and it may work out, but it's also the kind of move you make when your options are limited. Luke Musgrave is currently out. The position is thin and the margin for error is small.

The secondary is the bigger concern. Micah Parsels, who was a first-team All-Pro in his first Green Bay season despite missing three games with an ACL tear, is on the PUP list with a return targeted around Week 6. That's six weeks of the regular season where the cornerback depth — Marlon Jones, Shemar Bartholomew, Domani Jackson behind him — gets tested before the team's best cover man is available. The Wyatt extension and the McDuffie deal lock in the defensive front and linebacker corps. The secondary is where the December vulnerability lived, and right now it's the part of the roster with the least certainty.

The next ten days of camp will tell a lot. Banks and Stackhouse moving fast is a good sign for the program's medical and conditioning staff. But the tight end room needs Yassmin to be more than a project, and the secondary needs Parsels's timeline to hold.

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