{"id":1123,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1123","headline":"Packers to be without linebacker Zaire Franklin against Lions","dek":"Franklin, Green Bay's second-leading tackler, suffered a shin injury in practice and will sit out Sunday.","body":"Zaire Franklin is out for the Packers' Week 7 matchup against the Lions, sidelined by a shin injury he picked up in practice. Franklin, the team's second-leading tackler, is the only Green Bay starter listed with a definitive status heading into Sunday's game at Detroit.\n\nLosing Franklin is a real blow to a Packers defense that leans on him for run support and coverage duties at linebacker. Four other players carry questionable tags on the injury report, leaving some uncertainty about who else might be limited or unavailable once the game starts.\n\nFor now, Green Bay's coaching staff will need to lean on depth at linebacker to fill the void left by Franklin's absence. How the Packers reshuffle their front seven without one of their steadiest defenders will be worth watching once the game kicks off against a Lions team that will look to exploit any weakness in the middle of Green Bay's defense.","published_at":"2026-10-23T21:48:02.485912+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Packers Injury Report: Franklin out, 4 questionable vs. Lions","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/packers-injury-report-franklin-4-205621717.html"},{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Packers LB Zaire Franklin To Miss Sunday's Game Against Lions With Injury","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/green-bay-packers-zaire-franklin-injury"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Packers linebacker Franklin out Sunday with shin injury","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50258680/packers-linebacker-zaire-franklin-sunday-shin-injury"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Zaire Franklin out for Week 7 with shin injury suffered in practice","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/zaire-franklin-out-for-week-7-with-shin-injury-suffered-in-practice"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Packers captain Zaire Franklin to miss Lions game with shin injury","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/packers-captain-zaire-franklin-miss-162058027.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Packers linebacker Zaire Franklin ruled out for Sunday","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/packers-linebacker-zaire-franklin-ruled-161732127.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Zaire Franklin out for Week 7 with shin injury suffered in practice","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/zaire-franklin-week-7-shin-162046267.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Packers linebacker Zaire Franklin won't play Sunday at Detroit because of a shin injury","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/packers-linebacker-zaire-franklin-wont-163038844.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Green Bay Packers: Pro Bowl Captain Suffers Freak Injury, Out Week 7","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/green-bay-packers-pro-bowl-201413624.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Matt LaFleur Announces Shocking News on Defensive Captain","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/matt-lafleur-announces-shocking-news-204807974.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9fe50e2/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F2%2F823%2Fnbc_pft_joshjacobs_261020.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}