Former Packers RB to miss entire season due to injury

San Francisco 49ers running back Patrick Taylor Jr. Kyle Terada-Imagn Images

Former Green Bay Packers RB to miss entire 2025 NFL season due to injury

Originally posted on WI Sports Heroics | By Robin M Adams | Last updated Aug 20, 2025 8:28 AM ET

The Green Bay Packers are dealing with some concerning injuries to significant members of their roster. As their fans are well aware, the Packers have seen multiple wide receivers projected to be at the top of the depth chart go down during training camp with various injuries. Christian Watson, of course, has not been practicing all offseason as he is recovering from a torn ACL suffered in Week 18 against the Chicago Bears.

In addition to him, the Packers also played their previous preseason game without Romeo Doubs (back), Jayden Reed (foot) and Dontayvion Wicks (calf). And while Doubs returned to practice this week, Reed and Wicks remain out.

Elsewhere around the NFL, other teams are dealing with injuries of their own, and some involve players who are former Packers.

Former Green Bay Packers running back Patrick Taylor Jr. is out for the 2025-26 NFL season

One of these players is former Packers running back Patrick Taylor Jr., who played in Green Bay from 2021-23. An undrafted free agent who often filled in as Green Bay’s third running back, he accumulated 261 rushing yards and a touchdown in his three seasons with the Packers. He found himself out of a job when the Packers revamped their running back room before the 2024 NFL season.

Taylor ended up with the San Francisco 49ers last season and had the best year of his career with 183 rushing yards and a touchdown while appearing in 13 games.

He will not be playing any games this season as San Francisco just put him on season-ending injured reserve:

RB Patrick Taylor Jr. had surgery on his shoulder and will miss the season, Shanahan said.

— Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) August 19, 2025

NFL teams can only have so many players on an injured reserve list. Interestingly, Taylor’s injury led the 49ers to release another former Packer, wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown, who was placed on injured reserve last week.

In order to release an injured player, teams and that player must come to an injury settlement, which St. Brown received.

He is now free to sign with any team in the NFL should he be able to pass a physical.

Ameer Abdullah, Equanimeous St. Brown and Bradlee Anae all reached injury settlements in recent days with the 49ers to be released from IR
— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) August 19, 2025