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Packers head coach Matt LaFleur.
The Green Bay Packers are in the midst of minicamp as mandatory team activities are now underway, and the list of meaningful players dealing with injuries is already beginning to grow.
That sounds perhaps a bit worse than it is, as teams take heavy precautions during preseason workouts to make sure their most important players — namely starters and/or guys essentially guaranteed to make the final 53-man roster — are as healthy as possible come Week 1. Teams are also at a time in the NFL calendar, during which the league does not require detailed injury disclosures, so it’s impossible to know just how serious an injury is or isn’t.
As such, there was only minimal information available on Tuesday, June 9 around new health concerns regarding two of the Packers starters, one on each side of the football, and a prominent backup.
“A total of 16 players did not practice,” Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated reported. “New to the injury list with undisclosed injuries were two starters, left guard Aaron Banks and defensive tackle Javon Hargrave. Also, tight end Luke Musgrave dropped out of practice.”
Aaron Banks Was Packers’ Worst Starter on Offensive Line Last Season
GettyGreen Bay Packers left guard Aaron Banks.
Despite his personal struggles in 2025, Banks is a key cog in an offensive line that took a big step back last season, in part due to injury. Green Bay finished the campaign with the 19th-ranked unit in the league, per Pro Football Focus (PFF).
PFF identified Banks as the weakest link in the Packers’ group of five starters based on his advanced metrics.
“The Packers’ offensive line struggled in pass protection this season. The unit gave up 173 pressures, including 15 sacks, on 561 pass plays. That fueled an 83.2 PFF pass-blocking efficiency rating, which ranked only 26th in the NFL in 2025,” Zoltán Buday wrote in January. “Banks had a rough first season in Green Bay. The former San Francisco 49ers player gave up pressure on 7.1% of pass plays, which was the worst rate of his career.”
Banks, who will play next season at 29 years old, came over from San Francisco ahead of last season, inking a four-year deal worth $77 million total and is likely to start again for Green Bay in 2026 if healthy.
Javon Hargrave Part of Packers’ Push to Bolster Poor-Performing Defensive Line
GettyGreen Bay Packers defensive tackle Javon Hargrave.
Hargrave is a free agency addition from this offseason, after the Minnesota Vikings released him in March halfway into a two-year contract. Green Bay added the 33-year-old interior defender on a two-year deal worth $23 million.
The Packers entered the spring as weak along the defensive line as perhaps anywhere else on the roster, with the only other strong argument to be made for the cornerback room. Hargrave, a two-time Pro Bowler, put up 52 total tackles last season, including four tackles for loss, as well as six QB hits, 3.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
Hargrave will join Devonte Wyatt, a first-round pick in 2022, who is returning this year after suffering a broken fibula and torn ankle ligaments on Thanksgiving Day.
Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group’s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible
