GREEN BAY — Travis Glover knows he cannot change the past. The best he can do is be better — if and when future opportunities come along.

The opportunity the Green Bay Packers second-year offensive lineman has gotten the early in camp isn’t nearly as pressurized as his last one was. But he wants nothing more than to show his coaches and teammates that he’s not the player they saw struggle mightily in last January’s season-ending NFC first-round playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

With $77 million left guard Aaron Banks sidelined with what head coach Matt LaFleur termed “a little back issue,” Glover worked with the No. 1 offensive line during the second half of Thursday’s practice after Banks dropped out, then got additional reps again on Friday with Banks not participating.

“My main goal, [after] last year when I got thrown in the playoff game, is to go re-earn their trust,” Glover said. “So, every time I get in there, no matter 1s, 2s, 3s, just go out there and play, earn the trust of my teammates and the coaches, all the way upstairs … just go out there and work.”

There’s no denying that the last time we saw Glover was a trainwreck.

When two-time Pro Bowl left guard Elgton Jenkins suffered a stinger on the fourth offensive snap of the game and was unable to continue, head coach Matt LaFleur and offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich tabbed Glover to replace him.

It did not go well.

Glover committed three penalties in short order, including two holding penalties in a three-snap span. Eventually, the coaches replaced him with Kadeem Telfort, who didn’t fare much better against the Eagles’ impressive front four.

“I [went] out there and did nothing that I can say I’m proud of,” Glover admitted. “So now, it’s just about re-earning that trust of everybody in the building. I mean, it’s a job. It’s performance-based, so you’ve got to go perform. Every opportunity I get, I want to go out there and re-prove myself.”

Since the first three practices of camp were in helmets, jerseys and shorts, there’s not a ton to be read into Glover’s performance — or anyone else’s, for that matter. That will change on Sunday, when the pads come on for the first time.

It’s unclear whether Banks will be back on the field after the players have Saturday off — LaFleur called Banks’ injury “very much day-to-day” — and with the first in-pads practice of camp set for Sunday, Glover will have another opportunity to rebuild that trust.

Although, to hear LaFleur tell it, the sixth-round pick from Georgia Southern, who had played only 13 offensive snaps during the team’s 17 regular-season games before being thrown into the fire in the playoff game, doesn’t have to keep beating himself up over his performance.

“I mean, he’s a young player. What he needs to do is focus on just here and now and getting better, staying present, being in the moment, and taking advantage of every opportunity that he gets,” LaFleur said. “That’s all we’re going to ask of him.

“I wouldn’t say ‘re-earn the trust.’ I wouldn’t use that verbiage.”

Call it what you want, but this much is clear: Glover is eager to atone and understands the roster-spot battle that he finds himself in.

“I mean, I go out there and I handle my business just like every guy in this locker room. I just go out there and play,” Glover said. “When my number called, I go.

“They could’ve called anybody [in that game], but they called on me. So I take that personally.”

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