Making Packers' roster is 'one step' for Lenzy Pipkins

Undrafted rookie cornerback grateful for opportunity in Green Bay

GREEN BAY – Last Saturday, at the moment of truth, Lenzy Pipkins wasn’t sure what to think.

As the 3 p.m. roster deadline approached, the undrafted rookie cornerback hadn’t received a call from anyone at the Packers telling him whether or not he’d made the team.

Media outlets began circulating the news on Twitter that he was on Green Bay’s 53-man roster, and Pipkins started receiving congratulatory messages from friends, but he still didn’t quite believe it.

Then, at 3:05, cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt Jr. called him with the positive news, that he was one of seven corners the Packers were keeping, and he could finally let it sink…