Outside Linebacker Health Key For Packers

Saying the Green Bay Packers don’t have much depth at outside linebacker is an understatement. They kept only four players at the position.

Saying their starters are injury-prone is an even bigger understatement. When healthy, Nick Perry and Clay Matthews can be a formidable duo. However, Perry has never played a full season. Matthews has missed games in all but three of his nine seasons.

Behind those two are a seemingly up-and-coming Reggie Gilbert and a pretty average Kyler Fackrell. So what is the Packers’ plan here? Other than there being some sort of rotation, no one really seems to know.

“I know it’s a position in which you don’t see a lot of guys playing 99 percent of the snaps at that…