It would certainly appear that the Green Bay Packers have some buyer’s remorse regarding their drafting of running back Eddie Lacy in 2013. His NFL career is still very young, but he’s already put up the trifecta of underachieving on the field having some issues off the field, and showing up to camp out of shape.
It doesn’t seem like he’s long for this Packers world, and you wonder how many more NFL chances he’ll get if when Green Bay decides to cut ties.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport on Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy:
“The Packers I’m told do have some off the field concerns with Eddie Lacy and that came to light when he was disciplined for a curfew violation on Wednesday night, of course before the Thursday game. But he wasn’t alone. Alonzo Harris, another running back, was actually released from the team and what transpired after this was pretty instructive on what the Packers think about Eddie Lacy.
They thought about bringing Harris back on the practice squad but they are not going to because he is one of Lacy’s running mates. They’re close friends and they don’t want any bad influences close to Lacy. This is not the only issue they’ve had to deal with with him. He also showed up to training camp pretty heavy. He also was benched and made the number two running back. They certainly need Eddie Lacy to be better.”
Sounds like there’s a whole lot of “character concerns” and personality “red flags” going on there. Just not a good situation all around for Eddie Lacy and the Green Bay Packers.
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