GREEN BAY, Wisconsin − When David Bakhtiari was a late-morning scratch from the Green Bay Packers’ Week 7 game at Washington last season, it very much looked like his chances of playing with the Packers beyond 2022 were somewhere around zero.
Bakhtiari was suffering from recurring knee issues dating to a torn ACL in December 2020, and nearly two years later, when he was unable to play against Washington after going through warm-ups, it was hard to see how he’d be back with the Packers in 2023.
