The Green Bay Packers may need to play on without wide receiver Christian Watson for the remainder of Week 4’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.
Watson suffered an ankle injury near the end of the first quarter. Packers quarterback Jordan Love had tried to fit a short pass through tight coverage to him on third-and-7, but Vikings linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill jumped the route and intercepted his pass, pinning Watson’s left foot and twisting his left leg as he went to the turf to secure it.
The Packers’ training staff briefly evaluated Watson in the blue medical tent on their sideline before bringing out the cart and taking the 2022 second-round pick into the locker room. The team has listed him as questionable to return with an ankle injury.
“Yikes. That Christian Watson injury looked horrible. Like, very bad,” Alec Lewis, the Athletic’s Vikings beat writer, wrote on X following Watson’s first-quarter injury.
Things got off to a miserable start for the Packers offense in Love’s return to the field. Love showed rust in the first half after missing two consecutive games, throwing two interceptions that helped the Vikings seize a 28-0 lead that they carried into halftime. Rookie kicker Brayden Narveson also missed his first two field goal attempts.
The writer will update this post when more information is available on Watson.
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