The Green Bay Packers have activated center Lecitus Smith for their Sunday Night Football matchup against the Dallas Cowboys. This shouldn’t be a surprise, considering that Zach Tom and Anthony Belton have already been ruled out of Week 4 due to injury. What this does mean, though, is that Aaron Banks (groin), who was listed as doubtful on the Packers’ final injury report of the week, will likely be out, too.
Green Bay only needed to call up a practice squad offensive lineman if they didn’t believe that they were going to have eight healthy players at the position going into the Cowboys game. The way the NFL’s gameday active rules work is that teams get 47 roster spots, out of their 53-man active roster and two potential practice squad call-ups, but they receive a 48th player if and only