Everything That Happened at Practice 8 of Packers Training Camp

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur pulled back on the reins a bit at training camp on Friday. Instead of back-to-back full-pads practices to lead into Saturday’s Family Night, LaFleur had the players go in shells for an abbreviated practice.

“I would say that guys are probably pretty sore right now and tired, and that’s just the nature of it,” LaFleur said before practice. “I think in order to be able to accomplish hard things, you’ve got to do hard things. Training camp’s not meant to be easy, and they’ve got to grind through. And, hopefully, we can callous these guys up a little bit.”

Here is everything you need to know about the eighth practice of Packers training camp.

Jordan Love’s Day

Jordan Love finished 10-of-15 with three consecutive touchdowns.

He came out cooking with six consecutive completions, including a bullet to tight end Luke Musgrave and stepping up against the rush of Rashan Gary to connect with receiver Romeo Doubs.

The third completion went to Jayden Reed – more on that later – before firing passes to Matthew Golden, Doubs and Golden again, with the last two coming against decent coverage by Bo Melton. On the second of the passes to Golden, Love faked an end-around to Mecole Hardman before throwing a laser over the middle.

A big part of practice was dedicated to the red zone. After a completion to Musgrave, Love extended the play and saw running back Emanuel Wilson behind the coverage in the end zone. The throw was off-target and Wilson made a twisting, leaping adjustment. Wilson couldn’t make the catch, hit the turf and walked off the field with trainers. After throwing the ball too high to Tucker Kraft on a screen, Love found Golden again before throwing incomplete to Malik Heath, who was covered tightly by Keisean Nixon.

In the next red-zone block, Love threw consecutive touchdown passes to Doubs against Carrington Valentine, Heath – Gary might have had a sack – and tight end John FitzPatrick on a bootleg to the left. Love’s final pass of the day hit Doubs in the helmet.

Player of the Day: Romeo Doubs

Matthew Golden caught more passes than Romeo Doubs, but Doubs caught more punts in a remarkable feat of hand-eye coordination in critical training for Family Night.