Emanuel Wilson Camp Update — August 23: Still Out as the Room Restocks
2026 NFL Season · Sunday, Aug 23
Wilson hasn't practiced since the August 11 leg injury, and the week he missed was the week the backfield restocked around him — Price back to full-speed team work, Wright returning, a rookie signed. The availability case keeps losing days it can't get back.
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Emanuel Wilson missed another full week. He hasn't practiced since hurting his leg on August 11, and the most recent status in the accessed coverage — Cameron Van Til at Seattle Sports, on Tuesday — still described an undisclosed short-term injury with no return date. No Wilson note appeared in the coverage of Friday's joint practice in Nashville. Whatever short-term means, it has now cost him the joint-practice week of camp.
And the room did not hold still for him. Jadarian Price returned to full-speed practice Monday and took team-period reps in Nashville on Friday, per Bob Condotta at The Seattle Times and the team's website. Jacardia Wright came back Monday after two weeks out, and the team signed rookie back Anthony Hankerson for bodies, per Condotta. Zach Charbonnet stays on the physically-unable-to-perform list, so the September opportunity Wilson signed for still exists — but the queue for it is repopulating while he watches.
Back in June the preview called availability — 34 straight games of it in Green Bay — Wilson's one skill, and the injury aimed at exactly that has now held for a week and a half on a one-year deal. What to watch: whether Wilson returns to the field before the preseason finale — any game touches would say the leg and the roster case are both alive — and the cutdown decision itself on Sunday. We'll check after cut day.
_Data via nflverse._
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