Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb will miss three to ?ve days of football after fracturing his visor during practice drills Tuesday afternoon.
According to team sources, the incident occurred after a routine collision with Packers safety Jerron McMillian and initially went unnoticed.
“I got up, felt ?ne, and went back to the huddle. But when I got there, all the guys were just looking at me like my head was missing. I had no idea what was going on, and then Aaron [Rodgers] started screaming for the trainer.”
Medical inspection of Cobb’s visor revealed two hairline fractures in the lower right medial area.
“I just looked at the helmet and shook my head. I knew I was done,” Cobb said.
“It’s just a minor fracture, not a complete break. Still, you can’t risk going out there and playing with something like this,” Packers head trainer Pepper Burruss told Cardinal reporters.
Packers General Manager Ted Thompson, famous for his penny-pinching, con?rmed that Cobb could have been back as early as the next day, but said he opted for the dickssportinggoods.com Standard 3-5 Business Day shipping because of “the ridiculous cost of overnight delivery.”
“It’s just not something we can afford in a contract year,” said Thompson.
