Brandon Chillar News

The Green Bay Packers are ready to throw Mark Tauscher back into the mix but perhaps not for an entire game.

Tampa Bay's Antonio Bryant was inactive for Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers, leaving rookie quarterback Josh Freeman to make his first NFL start without the Buccaneers' top wide receiver.

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and receiver Donald Driver practiced Friday and are probable for Sunday's game at Tampa Bay.

OK, A.J. Hawk. Here's your chance. ♦ Sign up for Green Bay Packers text alerts.

Mark Tauscher says returning to football is not like riding a bike - you don't just jump back in after a layoff and feel the same as you did before.

Dom Capers won't have the services of Brandon Chillar for a while. The linebacker is out for a few weeks with a broken hand.

There wasn't a single Packers player willing to concede the NFC North Division title after the team's 38-26 loss to the Vikings in former Packer Brett Favre's homecoming to Lambeau Field in a purple uniform.

GREEN BAY, Wis. a ' Eight weeks into the National Football League season there is one thing you can say with certainty: The Minnesota Vikings are a better football team than the Green Bay Packers.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers came out of Sunday's loss to the Minnesota Vikings with a sprain on one foot and sprained toe on the other.

The Packers didn't have an answer for the dynamic Percy Harvin on Sunday. The Minnesota Vikings' outstanding rookie playmaker is a leading candidate for rookie of the year at the halfway point of the season and was a major factor in this game as kickoff returner alone in the Vikings' 38-26 win over the Packers at Lambeau Field.

It's not often an NFL defense allows only three total points in back-to-back games.

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert What's going on with Green Bay linebacker A.J. Hawk? That's the question asked Thursday by Greg A. Bedard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Pete Dougherty of the Green Bay Press-Gazette . Hawk is technically a starter but isn't involved in most of the Packers' sub defensive packages.

These same teams play other defenses and score, so it's not like they're getting shut out all year.

Korey Hall, Jordy Nelson, Mark Tauscher and Jarius Wynn are out for Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns.

GREEN BAY -- Even with more than $16 million in salary cap space available this season, the Green Bay Packers aren't in a hurry to offer any contract extensions to their key upcoming free agents.

T.J. Lang isn't thinking about anything other than making his first NFL start at left tackle on Sunday.

Quinn was benched earlier in the season. And A.J. Hawk has spent more time on the sideline during the last two games, including being in just nine plays during last Sunday's shutout win over Detroit.

A.J. Hawk again is becoming a lost man on the Green Bay Packers' defense with Nick Barnett back to playing full-time. ♦ Sign up for Green Bay Packers text alerts.

As told to former Packer Insider columnist Cliff Christl, Eric Baranczyk , an assistant high school football coach and a former player and coach at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, offers a weekly analysis of the Green Bay Packers with a distinctly Inside Football slant.