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Amos Clears Concussion Protocol, Will Play vs. Giants

Green Bay Packers safety Adrian Amos will have a big role in stopping New York Giants running back and fellow Penn State star Saquon Barkley.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Green Bay Packers Adrian Amos has cleared the NFL’s concussion protocol and presumably will be in the starting lineup for Sunday’s game in London against the New York Giants.

Amos has been an ironman for the Packers. Assuming he’s in the lineup, this will be Amos’ 72nd consecutive start. That’s the second-longest streak among NFL safeties, behind only Tennessee’s Kevin Byard (92). Not only has Amos started every game in his three-plus seasons with the Packers, he’s played an incredible number of snaps.

Amos missed the final 44 snaps after he suffered a concussion against the Patriots last week. He had missed only 54 snaps prior to that.

His presence will be an important part in Green Bay’s quest to stop Giants running back Saquon Barkley, who leads the NFL in rushing yards and 15-yard runs. Amos is a physical defender and one of the top tacklers in the NFL at the position.

Amos’ status was evident when the team did not elevate fellow safety Micah Abernathy from the practice squad on Saturday.

With the return of Amos and cornerback Jaire Alexander, the Packers will have their No. 1 secondary intact.

Last season, Amos started all 17 games and led the defense with 1,048 snaps. He finished third on the team with 94 tackles and added eight passes defensed. Of 64 safeties with at least 50 percent playing time, Amos ranked sixth with a missed-tackle rate of 6.1 percent (six misses), according to PFF.

This season, he’s got 13 tackles, including two for losses, and one pass defensed.

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BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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