Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage questionable to return to Sunday Night Football with foot injury

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Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage exited Sunday Night Football against the Philadelphia Eagles after being injured on the third play of the game. Late in the first quarter, NBC’s Melissa Stark updated everyone on the status of the Packers’ safety. “An update on Packers’ safety Darnell Savage. We saw the opening series of the game. He went in to get X-Rays. The initial word from the team–he is questionable to return with a foot injury,” Stark said.

Green Bay brought in Rudy Ford to replace Savage at safety and they also moved Keisean Nixon to the slot cornerback position. Ford snatched two interceptions earlier in the season against the Dallas Cowboys. He played his college football for the Auburn Tigers.

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The game is being nationally televised on NBC. Green Bay was trailing the Eagles 13-0 early in the first quarter, but battled back in the second quarter to tie it up at 20 apiece. The Eagles led at halftime, 27-20.

The Packers are already thin in the secondary, so an injury to Savage is obviously bad news. The franchise has been dealing with a number of injuries at multiple positions throughout the 2022 season.

Coming into Sunday night’s game, he had racked up 37 tackles during the 2022 season. This is his fourth year in the National Football League. Savage’s best season with the Packers came in 2020, when he racked up 71 tackles and snatched four interceptions. He became the only Green Bay safety to record multiple interceptions in each of his first three seasons in the NFL (2019-2021), according to stathead.com

He snatched six interceptions during his first two seasons with the Packers, the most by a Green Bay safety in their first two seasons since Tom Flynn grabbed 10 interceptions in 1984-1985, per stathead.com.

During his college football career with the Maryland Terrapins from 2015 to 2018, Savage racked up 182 tackles, eight interceptions, one sack, and two touchdowns. He was selected No. 21 overall by the Packers in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.