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Packers receiver Jayden Reed suffered a broken collarbone during the team's win over the Commanders on Thursday night.

Head coach Matt LaFleur said after the game that Reed will miss "a lot" of time, there's now a better sense of when he'll recover.

Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Reed will have surgery to repair his collarbone early next week. The hope is that he will be ready to play in November.

This is Reed’s first significant injury in the league, as he played 16 games as a rookie in 2023 and was on the field for all 17 contests in 2024. Last season, Reed caught 55 passes for 857 yards with six touchdowns.

Reed caught three passes for 45 yards with a touchdown in the season-opening win over the Lions. While he got his hands on a ball last night, his touchdown catch was negated by an offensive penalty.

The addition of Micah Parsons has given Green Bay's defense a B-12 shot. As it relates to the career of Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley, "I think it moved."

And it will likely move in the direction of an NFL head-coaching job.

Eyebrows were raised when Hafley quit as head coach at Boston College to become an NFL defensive coordinator. It was, seemingly, a conscious half-step back in the hopes of taking a major step forward.

The major step forward the Green Bay defense has taken with the addition of Parsons will help Hafley get the boost he needs to take over an NFL team of his own.

The routine is well known. Much of landing in the center of the hiring-cycle radar screen entails being in the right place at the right time. Hafley has the reins of a Packers defense that could anchor a deep playoff run.

It's already started. Praise will be heaped on Hafley during game broadcasts. Cutaways to his position in the coaching booth will become more common. More and more media voices will start mentioning him as a viable NFL head coach.

After all, unlike many coordinators who get promoted to a level at which they may or may not thrive, Hafley has four years of experience as a major-college head coach. And this is his ninth season as an NFL assistant coach.

So, yeah, the 46-year-old Hafley will be on the short list for January. The better the Packers do, the more seriously owners whose teams inevitably have vacancies will take Hafley as a head-coaching candidate.

While it may have happened anyway, having Parsons fall into Hafley's lap (thanks to Jerry Jones's gross mismanagement of Micah's contract) makes it even more likely.

The Commanders will not have defensive end Deatrich Wise for the rest of 2025.

Via multiple reports, the quad injury Wise suffered during Washington's Thursday night loss to Green Bay will require season-ending surgery.

Wise, 31, started the first two games for Washington after signing with the club in the offseason. He had spent the first eight seasons of his career with New England.

Last year, he recorded 5.0 sacks and three passes defended in 15 games for the Patriots.

Wise signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Commanders in March.