Inexperienced Bay Packers place Sammy Watkins on injured reserve

The Inexperienced Bay Packers have put broad receiver Sammy Watkins on injured reserve, the workforce introduced Saturday.

Watkins, who has a hamstring harm, had already been dominated out of Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With the IR designation, he is out a minimal of 4 video games and will return no sooner than Oct. 23 in opposition to Washington.

The one one of many Packers’ high 4 receivers who has been cleared to play and brought off the harm report is Allen Lazard, who has been restricted in observe this week due to the ankle harm that stored him out of the season opener. Lazard returned for final week’s recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bears and is the one receiver on the roster to have caught a landing this season.

Watkins has six catches for a team-high 111 yards by way of the primary two video games of the season. He caught three passes for 93 yards vs. the Bears.

The 29-year-old Watkins additionally handled hamstring points final season with the Baltimore Ravens, when he had 27 catches for 394 yards and one landing to set profession lows in all three classes. Watkins has battled accidents for a lot of his profession, which started in 2014 when the Buffalo Payments chosen him out of Clemson with the No. 4 total choose within the draft.

The Packers on Saturday additionally signed RB Patrick Taylor to the lively roster and elevated WR Juwann Winfree to the lively roster for recreation day

ESPN’s Rob Demovsky and The Related Press contributed to this report.