GREEN BAY, Wis. — The task of finding receivers who will fill the void left by Jordy Nelson's season-ending injury has started in earnest in Green Bay.
Coach Mike McCarthy said no one man can pick up the slack.
Randall Cobb caught 91 passes last year from MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers, second on the team to Nelson's 98. Now Cobb is clearly the top option with Nelson out with a right knee injury.
But that doesn't necessarily change Cobb's role.
"I think it's very important for everybody — Randall, the coaches — just to stay focused on what we need to do," McCarthy said Wednesday before practice, "and that's not try to ask or put pressure on any individual to try to do more.