GREEN BAY — To Josh Jacobs, it was as if Isaiah Simmons had appeared out of thin air.
One moment, the Green Bay Packers running back was taking his first steps into his route for a screen pass. A split-second later, Simmons was already blowing the whole thing up — just as he’d done on a toss play to Jacobs earlier in Wednesday’s first practice of training camp.
Now, the same requisite caveat regarding the first three practices of summer applied to the plays Simmons had made — and that same stipulation was needed for the play he made a day later, when his tip of a Malik Willis pass resulted in a Carrington Valentine interception: The helmets-jerseys-shorts workouts are non-contact, and things don’t get real (or closer to real, anyway) until the pads come on.