Chris Brooks Camp Update — August 23: Absent From the Game Coverage Again

Chris Brooks went another week without a single attributable appearance. He was not mentioned in the team's in-game file from Friday's 33 to 13 win in Denver by Wes Hodkiewicz and Mike Spofford, nor in Rob Reischel's Forbes recap, nor in Bill Huber's practice reports at Packers On SI from Tuesday or Wednesday — not on the absence lists, not in the play-by-play. We cannot tell you whether he dressed Friday; we can tell you the backfield touches that got written up went elsewhere: MarShawn Lloyd caught an 11-yard touchdown from Jordan Love, Pierre Strong Jr. carried eight times for 37 yards, and Jaden Nixon added a fourth-quarter rushing touchdown, per Hodkiewicz and Spofford. Meanwhile Josh Jacobs returned to practice Tuesday from his groin injury, per Huber, restoring the top of the depth chart Brooks sits under.

That is a quiet week, and for this particular profile, quiet is not neutral. Brooks's case has always been positional — a rugged rotation back who, as our June preview put it, backed into the number-two job behind Jacobs — and the backup work that job represents keeps accruing to other names: the non-football-injury stint cost him the first two weeks of camp, Lloyd has two healthy games and a score, and Strong just put 37 rushing yards on tape in a game where Brooks generated no coverage at all. Nothing in the week's reporting subtracts Brooks's roster standing — the two-year contract from the spring is unchanged — but he has produced nothing attributable to answer with. Watch next whether Brooks appears at all in the preseason finale, and whether he is on the roster after the cut to 53 on Sunday, August 30 — the first hard vote on how the staff ranks this room. We'll check after cut day.

_Data via nflverse._