The Green Bay Packers are adding a 2025 rookie draft pick to their backfield for the final game of the regular season with starter Josh Jacobs still on the mend.
Per the team’s official transaction wire, the Packers signed rookie running back Damien Martinez — a 2025 seventh-round selection for the Seattle Seahawks — to their practice squad in a series of more than a half-dozen roster moves on Tuesday, December 30.
Martinez had 24 carries for 84 yards and a touchdown in three preseason games for the Seahawks earlier this year, but the No. 223 overall pick did not make their initial roster and stuck around for less than a month on the practice squad before the team cut him.
Even still, the Packers might actually put Martinez to work against Minnesota.
The Packers have already locked into place as the No. 7 seed in the 2025 NFL playoffs and are mulling whether to rest some — or most — of their starters against the Vikings in Week 18 with nothing at stake in the game outside of divisional bragging rights.
Considering Jacobs has been nursing a knee injury since Week 12, it would make sense if the Packers decided to sit him against the Vikings. They may also do the same with their reliable No. 2 rusher, Emanuel Wilson, to preserve him for the postseason.
While the Packers would still have Chris Brooks available to handle reps if they rested Jacobs and Wilson, they would also likely promote at least one rusher — Martinez or Pierre Strong Jr. — to the game-day roster against the Vikings to bolster their ranks.
The Packers (9-6-1) will kick off against the Vikings (8-8) at 1 p.m. ET on January 4.
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