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Matt LaFleur: Everyone has a choice not to attend OTAs, but I want everybody here

Organized Team Activities are voluntary in the NFL, and Packers coach Matt LaFleur knows he can’t force players to attend. But LaFleur isn’t going to pretend he doesn’t want everyone there.

“Each guy has that right to make that choice. If you’re asking me, I want everybody here,” LaFleur said, via Jason Wilde of the State Journal. “I think some of the thought process may have changed over what’s transpired over the last two years, especially with our COVID situation where we didn’t have OTAs. But my thing to our guys is, ‘Well, neither did anybody else.