Packers Place OT Jason Spriggs On IR, Promote TE Emanuel Byrd

The Green Bay Packers announced Tuesday that they’ve placed OT Jason Spriggs (knee) on injured reserve and promoted TE Emanuel Byrd to their active roster.

  • The Packers also signed WR Jake Kumerow to their practice squad.

The Packers’ practice squad now consists of:

  1. CB Donatello Brown
  2. OL Kofi Amichia
  3. WR DeAngelo Yancey
  4. DE Izaah Lunsford
  5. LB Ahmad Thomas
  6. DB Raysean Pringle
  7. TE Robert Tonyan
  8. WR Colby Pearson
  9. FB Joe Kerridge
  10. WR Jake Kumerow

Spriggs, 23, is a former second-round pick of the Packers back in 2016. He’s currently in the second year of his four-year, $5.004 million contract and stands to make base salaries of $677,468 and $904,936 over the next two years.

The Packers placed him on injured reserve a few weeks into the regular season before activating him last month.

In 2017, Spriggs appeared in just seven games for the Packers.

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