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Tuesday Cheese Curds: Elgton Jenkins is back on the field

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On the Packers’ first day of padded practice, the focus was mainly on a guy who wasn’t in pads.

Elgton Jenkins ended his holdout/hold-in/stint on the NFI list Monday, returning to practice after missing the start of camp and essentially the entire offseason over a contract dispute — a contract dispute that wasn’t really about the money.

We’ve been over this a few times already at APC (look here and here), but it bears repeating: Jenkins’ dispute wasn’t about cashflow, it was about security. No matter how much message-laundering comes from sources close to Jenkins (i.