GREEN BAY — Turns out that the nagging, never-quite-healed left knee injury Josh Jacobs was dealing with for nearly two months wasn’t the only health issue the Green Bay Packers running back had.

Jacobs was also dealing with a sprained left ankle along with a bone bruise in his knee and a quadriceps contusion just above the knee.

“All on the same leg,” Jacobs revealed after practice Wednesday, as the Packers (9-7-1) continued their preparations for Saturday night’s NFC wild card playoff matchup with the rival Chicago Bears (11-6) at Soldier Field in Chicago. “So I was really, like, on one leg basically the whole time.

“But now I feel pretty good, so we’re going to see.”

Yes, we will, as the Packers not only held Jacobs out of last Sunday’s regular-season finale at Minnesota but limited him to just 13 snaps and four carries against Baltimore on Dec. 27 and just 28 snaps and 12 carries in the Packers’ last meeting with the Bears on Dec. 20.

As a result, Jacobs’ name doesn’t even appear on the Packers’ injury report this week, and he said Wednesday that not playing against the Vikings was just what the doctor ordered for him to feel the best he’s felt since before the team’s Nov. 16 win over the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium — where all his left leg injuries began.

“My body coming into this game is the best I’ve felt probably in the last six weeks, so it’s a pretty good situation to be in,” said Jacobs, who finished the season with 234 carries for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns plus 36 receptions for 262 yards and another TD.

“I’m not going to say I like not playing, but obviously these moments and these type of games is where it really matters the most. So it’s going to be fun and I like that I’m going to be able to hit the ground running.”

According to offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich, finding a balance between Jacobs’ intense desire to play through the pain and help the team, and his effectiveness being compromised by the constant swelling and limited functionality of his left leg, left the coaches unsure of when they’d have him and when they wouldn’t.

“We kind of leaned on Josh to let us know when he was good and when he wasn’t. There were times where he just felt like he couldn’t maybe be out there as much as he wanted to be,” Stenavich said, adding that Jacobs has looked “great” in practice this week. “It’ll be good to get him out there, you know. Hopefully he’s full speed and ready to go and we can get his best ball right now.”

Jacobs said the roughly three weeks of rest has removed virtually all of the swelling in his knee and that he believes that even a nasty hit won’t set him back.

“I haven’t really felt it at all, even taking full reps and everything at practice hasn’t bothered me,” Jacobs said. “So it’s been pretty good.”

Jacobs acknowledged he has extra motivation for Saturday night, since the last time he touched the ball against the Bears was when he fumbled on a first-and-goal at the Chicago 4-yard line with 6 minutes, 57 seconds left in the third quarter.

It was one of the Packers’ five touchdown-less trips inside the Bears’ red zone that night, which cost the Packers the game as much as Romeo Doubs’ muffed onside kick recovery and cornerback Keisean Nixon being beaten for the game-winning touchdown in overtime.

“I think about that drive. I’m like, ‘Man if we score right there, really the game is really over.’ So that’s something that I definitely think about,” Jacobs said. “It’s definitely been on my mind, and I’m not going to change how I play the game. I don’t want to go in there overthinking, but I’m going to run hard and we going to see how it plays out.”

And just what would the Packers be getting with a fully healthy Jacobs?

“We going to have to see. It’s going to be fun, though,” Jacobs replied. “It feels good to be able to just hit the ground running, be able to actually get up to my speeds and make my cuts the way that I normally make ’em and things like that. It feels good to be able to do that.”

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