Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs was almost going to miss the Week 7 game on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, but he was cleared to play.
That’s good news for the Packers, who entered the game with the Cardinals at a 3-1-1 overall record for the season. Jacobs’ presence gives opposing defenses something to think about when they see him on the field.
What’s Happened To Packers’ RB Josh Jacobs?
Jacobs was almost listed as inactive this week due to an illness and a calf injury. But the team announced before kickoff that he would be on the active roster.
Getting Jacobs back into the Green Bay offense was something that quarterback Jordan Love wanted to see happen. In the first half, with Arizona leading 13-6 at halftime, Jacobs had four carries for 21 yards and no touchdowns.
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Jacobs was a first-round pick (24th overall) by the then-Oakland Raiders in the 2019 NFL Draft. On the season, Jacobs has 98 carries for 359 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 3.7 yards per carry this season.
In the PFSN NFL Offense Impact metrics, the Packers have an 85.3 Offense Impact Score and grade out at a B. As for Love in the PFSN NFL QB Impact metrics, Love has a QB Impact Score of 89.1 and grades out at B+.
Last Sunday, in a 27-18 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Jacobs had 18 carries for 93 yards and two touchdowns. He averaged 5.2 yards per carry against the Bengals’ defense, something that the Packers hoped to see against the Cardinals.
Fantasy Football Outlook for Jacobs
For fantasy football players who were looking for some intel on Jacobs, here’s what PFSN’s Kyle Soppe wrote about him entering Week 7.
“There are running backs in the league, heck, within this division with a higher weekly ceiling than Josh Jacobs, but when it comes to knowing what you’re signing up for weekly, few elite options offer a more narrow range of outcomes than Green Bay’s RB1,” Soppe wrote.
“Jacobs has 20-26 touches in every game this season and has scored 22 times in 22 games with the Packers,” Soppe wrote. “Everything this offense wants to do is centered around No. 8, and he paid off that single-digit number by looking awfully fluid in space as a pass catcher as he hauled in 4+ passes with a 25+ yard gain for the third consecutive game.
“In an era of specialists and committees, Jacobs is going to bring his lunchpail to work every week and give you exactly what you’re expecting,” Soppe wrote. “I’d expect more of the same this weekend against a Cardinals defense that has already allowed north of 23 PPR points to running backs in this mold (Christian McCaffrey in Week 3 and Taylor over the weekend).”
As long as Jacobs can stay healthy, look for him to have a better second half against Arizona on the road.
