Oct 23, 2026 8:45 PM

Jordan Love's healthy status fuels Green Bay's offense, but the status of a few others remains uncertain for Sunday’s high-stakes divisional battle at Ford Field.

The Green Bay Packers injury report on Friday, Oct. 23, featured both good news and bad news.

The good news? Quarterback Jordan Love, along with wide receivers Christian Watson, Matthew Golden, and Savion Williams, don't have an injury designation.

The bad news? In addition to linebacker Zaire Franklin being ruled out earlier in the day, four players remain questionable ahead of a crucial NFC North showdown against the Detroit Lions.

For those who have been monitoring the Lions side of things as well, they only had three players on the report all week, but two of those three are questionable.

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Center Cade Mays (wrist) and safety Brian Branch (Achilles) have been full participants all week for Detroit, though they each still carry a game status of questionable, while cornerback Rock Ya-Sin is good to go.

Which four Packers are questionable?

Green Bay's offense looks to be in good shape, though Love could be without offensive guard Aaron Banks (knee/toe) and WR Bo Melton (back). 

Banks has been a limited participant all week, but Melton seems to be trending in the right direction as he went from a DNP to a limited participant on Oct. 23.

The game status for defensive tackle Jordon Riley remains questionable due to him still recovering from his torn Achilles, and CB Benjamin St-Juste is questionable with a hamstring injury.

In total, only having four players listed as questionable is far from the end of the world, especially with how bad things looked a couple of days ago with Love's first injury report of the season due to a sore back.

EDGE Lukas Van Ness was a late addition to the report, though he was deemed good to go after an illness made him a limited participant in practice on Thursday, Oct. 22.

Packers need to be at full strength in Detroit

Green Bay is 1-1 in divisional matchups this season. They suffered a horrendous Week 1 loss against the Minnesota Vikings, but two weeks ago took care of business in a dominant win against the Chicago Bears.

This is set to be the first Packers vs. Lions showdown of the year, and while Detroit's defense hasn't necessarily been up to par, it'll be interesting to see how things play out at Ford Field.

Running back Josh Jacobs seems to be a full-go for the Week 7 matchup, and his involvement in the game is going to make a huge difference, one way or another.

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