Packers practice news and notes, 8/1: The center competition opens up

The Green Bay Packers started off Tuesday with a bang when they made a flurry of transactions ahead of the team’s first fully-padded practice. The Packers released tight end Camren McDonald and guard Chuck Filiaga in exchange for center Cole Schneider and receiver Andre Miller.

Schneider and Miller are, at the very least, solves for a problem that Green Bay has in the short term: depth. The Packers only had three centers on their roster before Schneider’s signing and second-stringer Jake Hanson was held out of practice today with an elbow injury, leaving the team with few options but to add a body at the position with four quarterbacks on the roster. The same is true about Miller’s receiver…