Packers place RB AJ Dillon (neck) on season-ending injured reserve 

With Dillon on the shelf together with his neck harm, the Packers’ working again room on cutdown day homes starter Josh Jacobs, rookie third-rounder MarShawn Lloyd — who’s been coping with hamstring and hip points this summer time — and Emanuel Wilson. The crew additionally parted methods with backs Ellis Merriweather and Nate McCrary.

Jacobs was a giant free-agent acquisition for the squad, Lloyd has loads of promise and Wilson has finished nicely within the preseason. Nonetheless, it would not be out of the query for the Packers so as to add one other again or two the week.

The bruising Dillon posted 613 dashing yards and two touchdowns in 15 video games final season. Nonetheless, he didn’t play within the regular-season finale or both of the Packers’ playoff video games after struggling a cervical neck stinger in Week 17. It was thought of unlikely he’d return to the Pack, however Inexperienced Bay used a rare four-year qualifying offer on Dillon to retain him.

Nonetheless, Dillon’s future past this season would appear to be in jeopardy contemplating the 26-year-old’s neck harm.