The Green Bay Packers re-signed the popular special teams player ahead of their divisional matchup with the 49ers.
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The Green Bay Packers will make sure all their bases are covered ahead of their divisional round matchup with the San Francisco 49ers. Rookie Daniel Whelan was placed on the injury report this week with an undisclosed ailment. Even though he was expected and expected, Green Bay didn’t want to go into the biggest game of the season without a player.
To make sure Whelan can’t leave, the Packers re-signed Pat O’Donnell, who spent 2022 in Green Bay after eight seasons with the Chicago Bears.
As seen above in Tom Silverstein’s post on X (formerly Twitter), the Packers released offensive lineman Michael Jordan to make room for O’Donnell.
Pat O’Donnell has not appeared in an NFL game since leaving the Green Bay Packers.
The 2023 Packers team will be much different than the veteran-laden 2022 unit. Of course, the biggest move of the offseason was the Aaron Rodgers trade. To the New York Jets for Jordan Love. However, notable veterans who were allowed to leave via free agency were also replaced with rookies selected in the 2023 NFL Draft.
One of them was punter Pat O’Donnell, who was replaced by Daniel Whelan, who went to UC Davis. An undrafted free agent, Whelan has been an Irish NFL player since 1985.
Other key veterans released and traded:
Mason Crosby, Anders Carlson
Allen Lazard, Dontayvion Wicks, Leeven Wicks,
, Marcus. Musgrave
Robert Tonyan, Tucker Kraft
Dean Lowry, Karl Brooks
O’Donnell spent part of the 2023 season on the Atlanta Falcons practice squad. However, he did not appear in any games this season. The Packers also didn’t move him for the division opener against San Francisco, meaning Whelan will have to feel well enough to play.
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