After losing in week 7, the Green Bay Packers received encouraging news regarding Christian Watson’s injury

Due to plays from their Week Seven loss to the Denver Broncos, the Green Bay Packers will already be missing one of their starters owing to injury.

After leaving the game in the second quarter due to a reopened calf injury, Darnell Savage may be placed on injured reserve.

During the game, a number of other starting Packers players, such as Christian Watson and Eric Stokes, also sustained injuries. Stokes, who was participating in his first game in nearly a year, has not received any updates, but Watson gave ESPN’s Rob Demovsky one that sounds really encouraging.

Green Bay Packers Wide Receiver Christian Watson Expects to Play in Week Eight vs The Minnesota Vikings

A Jordan Love ball that was thrown a little low and behind Watson late in the game caused him injury. Watson’s foot stayed on the natural grass field, causing his knee to bend as he tried to catch the pass. He managed to leave the field on his own, but not before collapsing on the sidelines.

A severe knee injury, such as a ruptured ACL or MCL, was initially suspected. Watson, nevertheless, informed Demovsky that he escaped a catastrophic injury and hopes to return to action this weekend when the Packers play the Minnesota Vikings at Lambeau Field:

“I’m just trying to get the initial pain and stuff out of there, and I think I’ll be good to go.”

Watson sustained a hamstring injury during the final week of training camp, which has already caused him to miss three games this season.

The Green Bay Packers Need Christian Watson/Need to Get Him Involved

It goes without saying that Packers supporters have not enjoyed the past few weeks. With the exception of one game, Green Bay has now dropped three straight games by a single touchdown. Even though the offense has been annoying and erratic, they have come very close to winning three more games with it.

The previous season, the Packers also experienced a similar run. Despite having a fractured thumb, Aaron Rodgers had not taken the time to establish a rapport with his new wide outs and frequently disregarded them throughout the passing game.

Week 10 then arrived. Watson was given four times as many targets in Weeks 10–13 as he was in Weeks 1–9. In four contests, Watson totaled eight touchdowns, and the Packers finished 2-2. In all likelihood, they might have finished 3-1, but the defense allowed the eventual NFC Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, to score 40 points.

Watson was targeted at least five times every game after Week 13. Although he did not score receiving touchdowns in the latter weeks of the season, the Packers finished the season with four straight victories, so defenses had to respect what he was capable of.

Watson was one of the few offensive bright spots in their terrible Week 18 defeat to the Detroit Lions, pulling in five receptions for 104 yards.

Watson has only caught eight passes for 143 yards and a touchdown this season on 16 targets. The fact is that if Watson can get the ball in open field, the offense will operate so much more smoothly.

Watson can cause a great deal of harm if he is given the ball seven yards or more down on a slant and is free to run; forget about the deep ball that is placed thirty yards downfield. Recall that he had two touchdowns on the ground last season. Green Bay needs to figure out how to incorporate him more.