Edgerrin Cooper Went Down on a Sack of Jalon Daniels, And His Achilles Has Green Bay Worried

Packers linebacker Edgerrin Cooper is officially out for today’s game, and the serious concern is whether we’ll see him on the field again for the rest of the season. This is a brutal blow for Green Bay, especially given how quickly it all went down.

A Non-Contact Nightmare For Green Bay’s Defense

The moment itself was sickening: Cooper went down with a non-contact injury with 8:43 left in the third quarter. It happened during a play where Xavier McKinney sacked Jalon Daniels, and immediately, you knew it was bad. The dude needed a cart just to get off the field. The Packers didn’t waste any time ruling him out, confirming the worst fears: an Achilles injury. You just hate to see any player go down like that, especially without contact. It’s the kind of injury that can derail a season, and the folks in Green Bay have got to be holding their breath right now.

Cooper Was Making Plays Before The Injury

Before he went down, Cooper was absolutely playing his heart out, putting up numbers that make this injury even tougher to swallow. He’d racked up nine tackles, a sack, a quarterback hit, pulled off an interception, and even had a pass defensed. That’s a huge impact from a linebacker. The game itself saw the Packers leading the Bucs 17-14, thanks to Kenneth Gainwell’s 10-yard touchdown reception from Jalon Daniels, which was apparently the undrafted rookie’s first career touchdown pass. But all that is overshadowed by what happened to Cooper. Losing that kind of production mid-game, and potentially for the entire season, is a massive challenge for any team.

For the Packers, they’re now facing the rest of this game, and possibly the rest of their schedule, without a key playmaker. An Achilles injury is no joke, and while the official word is “concern for his availability for the rest of his season,” you know what that usually means. It’s a tough pill for Green Bay to swallow, and you gotta wonder how they’ll rally without him.

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Originally reported by Pro Football Talk.