Cisse's knee gives Green Bay's secondary another name to worry about

Brandon Cisse came out of the Denver preseason game on August 22 with a knee injury, though he downplayed it afterward. That's the update. It lands on a secondary that was already operating well short of full strength before a preseason snap was played.

The running tally: Micah Parsols is on the PUP list and won't play until at least Week 6, Javon Bullard has been managing a foot injury that prompted the front office to work out three outside safeties earlier this month, and now Cisse is added to the list of names with question marks. Kamal Hadden has been the one genuine bright spot, his slot work in preseason drawing enough attention to put him in the roster conversation. That's something. It doesn't solve the problem.

What's changed since I started writing versions of this note is that the preseason games are now actually producing casualties, not just camp attrition. The Cisse injury is the first secondary name to come directly out of game action. Whether it amounts to anything serious, he said it wasn't, remains to be seen. But with the final preseason weeks serving as the last audition window before the regular season opens without Parsols, Green Bay needs bodies who can play, not bodies who are questionable.