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Packers scouting staff coping with fallout of crumbling college football season

Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst had his modest college football playing experience cut short because of a shoulder injury, so he has felt the disappointment many NCAA seniors are dealing with today.

The college football season is on the brink of being postponed and for some players there is no guarantee their schools will try to make up the season in the spring. It means that COVID-19 will have turned another way of life upside down.

“You know, (I’m) really disappointed for those kids,” Gutekunst said in a Zoom call with reporters Monday. “The ability to play the game, that’s a tough thing because some of these guys may never ever get a chance to play football again.