The Packers signed Patrick Taylor to the 53-man roster and released Sammy Watkins to make room.  Watkins was a football player who was willing and able to do the dirty work.  As a vested veteran, Watkins can make a claim for his remaining unpaid base salary but he will not earn his game active bonuses.  The Packers did not elevate anyone from the Practice Squad for the game.

The healthy inactive players were Shemar Jean-Charles, Jonathan Ford, and Krys Barnes.  Caleb Jones was also inactive, though he still might not be 100% after contracting mono.  David Bakhtiari was also inactive.  Jordan Love, Luke Tenuta, and Rasheed Walker were active but did not play.

The Packers were able to run the ball at will.  Aaron Jones had 17 carries for 90 yards (5.3 average) while A. J. Dillon got 11 carries and gained 36 yards (3.3 yard average) but with two touchdowns.  They did it against a defensive line that is not particularly good.  DE Greg Gaines is a fourth round pick making $2.5M on a PPE deal.  Jonah Williams (UDFA) makes $825K, has only played 167 snaps this year and is terrible.  Mike Hoecht is another UDFA making $825K who has played less than 300 snaps over the last two seasons and is also pretty bad.  Bobby Brown is a 2021 fourth-round pick who had played 71 snaps in his career prior to this game.  Earnest Brown played just 2 snaps this year heading into today's game since he is on the PS.  Gaines (69 snaps), Williams(66), Hoecht (55), and Bobby Brown (45) and Earnest Brown (11) played 246 snaps against the Packers.  That is not a murderer's row.  A'Shawn Robinson and Aaron Donald were out injured.  The Packers handled the opposing defensive line and should have.

The pass protection was okay.  Rodgers was hit 6 times and sacked 3 times.  Leonard Floyd, working mostly against Nijman, had 3 QB hits, 2 sacks, and 2 tackles for loss.  Rodgers completed 22 of 30 attempts for 229 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT.  Doubs led the Packers with 55 receiving yards despite playing just 32% of snaps, while Watson had 46 yards, all in the second half.  Cobb contributed 32 and Big Dog leaked out after blocking to catch a short pass and rumble for 10 yards.  Dillon and Jones had 71 receiving yards.

The fantasy article from Pro Football Focus can be interesting.  Here are PFF's numbers:

PFF noted that Doubs was the 4th wide receiver and that he usually rotated in for Cobb when the Packers played 11 personnel.  PFF also noted that prior to this game, Watson averaged 2.77 yards per route from the slot and 2.11 yards/route when wide.  I would have liked to see Toure get a few more snaps, particularly in this type of game.

The defense held the Rams to 12 points.  Preston Smith had a great day working mostly against RT Rob Havenstein.  Smith finished with 4 quarterback hits, 2 sacks and 2 tackles for loss.  Enagbare added a sack and a tackle for loss working mostly against Ty Nsekhe, who seems like an interesting player.  Nsekhe has been in the league since 2012, gets good PFF grades, but has been a part-time player his whole career.  Justin Hollins continues to impress.  Hollins had half of a sack and 2 tackles in 26 snaps.

Kenny Clark made more plays today, finishing with 2 tackles with a tackle for loss and a quarterback hit.  Wyatt played well in just 9 snaps, finishing with a half sack, a QB hit, and 2 tackles.  Reed finished with one solo tackle.  Lowry had no statistics.  Quay Walker also had a nice game, and even was blitzed once or twice.  Walker finished with 5 solo tackles, one sack and a tackle for loss to go with two passes defended.  Rasul Douglas led the team with 6 tackles, and he had an interception.  He was up and down a little.  Amos made some nice plays but also had a pass interference penalty.  

Darnell Savage got just one snap while playing 9 ST snaps.  It remains to be seen if they was due to his recent injury.  Jonathan Garvin also could not get on the field except on special teams.

SPECIAL TEAMS:

Keisean Nixon returned two punts for 36 yards and 3 kickoffs for 95 yards, including a 52-yarder.  He had another called back due to a dubious holding call on Garvin.  The coverage teams allowed just a 19.8 yard average on 5 kickoff returns and one 8 yard punt return, though it was on a pooch punt.  Crosby made a 34 yard field goal and hit three extra points without incident. 

DL: 2.00

DB: 5.02

ILB: 1.98

OLB: 2.0

WR: 2.58

TE: 1.37 (a little higher than normal)

RB: 1.06

Photo courtesy of Dan Powers, USATODAY

All Statistics by NFLgsis except for pFF stats as noted.