GREEN BAY — Not only were the Green Bay Packers crestfallen to learn Monday that emerging star tight end Tucker Kraft’s season was over because of a torn ACL in his right knee, that wasn’t the only bad news the team got on the injury front.

The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported that cornerback Nate Hobbs, who had recently been benched in favor of Carrington Valentine after a poor showing in the Packers’ Oct. 19 win at Arizona, has a sprained MCL in his left knee and will be shut down for the next few weeks in hopes of avoiding surgery.

Hobbs underwent surgery to trim a torn meniscus in his right knee during training camp and missed the team’s Sept. 7 season-opening win over the Detroit Lions.

He played only four of the Packers’ 63 defensive snaps in the Packers’ Oct. 26 win over the Pitt

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