2. Randy Ramsey took a huge step on his long road back.
The third-year outside linebacker, who spent all of last season on injured reserve, was back on the practice field for the first time since last August.
Ramsey, an undrafted free agent back in 2019 who spent his rookie season on the practice squad and then made the active roster in 2020, appeared in position to crack the edge-rusher rotation last summer when he went down in the fifth practice of training camp.
It turned out to be a horrific injury – two ligament tears in his ankle and a fractured fibula. He couldn’t walk for two months, and the rehab since has been a long, arduous process.
Ramsey finally hit the field again Friday, nearly a full year since he got hurt. He expects to be full-go for individual drills in the coming days while getting worked slowly back into 11-on-11 reps.
“I’m feeling good. I feel like I’m in a great space,” Ramsey said. “I’m just trying to keep that motivation and keep that tunnel vision I had last year.”
After playing in 12 games in 2020, mostly on special teams (he ranked third on the team in coverage tackles with nine), Ramsey eyed being one of the next men up at outside linebacker last season behind Rashan Gary and the Smiths, Preston and Za’Darius.
With Za’Darius Smith no longer in Green Bay and General Manager Brian Gutekunst adding just one draft pick, fifth-rounder Kingsley Enagbare, at his position, Ramsey feels he’s got roughly the same opportunity in front of him now that he did a year ago. The depth at outside linebacker remains highly unsettled.
The Packers’ paucity of moves at the position also speaks to what the Packers feel they’ll have in a healthy Ramsey, and that’s not lost on him, either.
“I’m very excited,” he said. “The fact that Gutey, he believes in me that much, that just motivates me. When you’re facing adversity, you’ve got some people that’s for you and some people that’s against you. I just try to pay attention to the people that believe in me. I just…
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