GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers want their offensive linemen to be versatile.

But either 2024 first-round draft pick Jordan Morgan isn’t cut out for playing multiple positions, or Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and the offensive coaching staff are asking him to play more spots than they should be.

Whatever the case may be, Morgan has told anyone who would listen since being drafted that he would prefer to play left tackle — the position he played throughout high school and his college career at Arizona — and yet he hasn’t been able to unseat incumbent Rasheed Walker the past two training camps.

And, after playing right tackle and left guard during Sunday’s 13-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns, it’s reasonable to wonder whether the Packers are spreading him too thin.

“I think there’s some merit to that, for sure,” LaFleur said during his usual Monday Q&A session with reporters. “Especially when you look at just [how he was] playing multiple spots in one game. I don’t think that’s easy on anybody, especially a guy who’s still a relatively young player. That’s something we’ve got to certainly look at.”

Morgan worked at left tackle and left guard during training camp and preseason games, then rotated with starter Sean Rhyan at right guard in the Sept. 7 opener against the Detroit Lions until starting left guard Aaron Banks left that game with groin and ankle injuries.

Morgan started at left guard in the Packers’ Sept. 11 win over the Washington Commanders with Banks inactive for that game, then took over at right tackle against the Browns after starter Zach Tom lasted only one snap in his return from an oblique injury.

And when Banks left the game with a groin injury shortly thereafter, Morgan moved to left guard and Belton came in at right tackle. When Walker then missed a few snaps, Belton moved to left tackle and Darian Kinnard filled in at right tackle.

All the shuffling was less than ideal against a Browns defensive front that is among the NFL’s best, and it likely factored into the Packers giving up five sacks — tying for the most sacks quarterback Jordan Love has ever taken in a single game.

“They’re a really good defense, I’ll say that,” Love said. “They do a lot of really good things. But I think the tough part for us is, I feel like we were hurting ourselves more than anything with some of the penalties and the little things.”

Added Belton: “You’ve just got to learn from the mental errors, the penalties, and come next week ready to play.”

LaFleur confessed Monday that his offensive game plan may have been too focused on neutralizing perennial All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett, who had only a 0.5 sack while his teammates accounted for 4.5. FOX Sports mentioned on the telecast that LaFleur had a separate section on his play-call sheet for when Garrett wasn’t on the field.

“Obviously going into the game, there was a huge emphasis on not allowing Myles Garrett to wreck the game, in terms of just trying to chip him,” LaFleur explained. “I knew that D-line was pretty good; [I] probably underestimated them to some level, the other guys. Obviously Myles, we all know and he’s well-respected across the league. But all those other guys, those interior guys were a problem.”

Special needs | While the Packers weren’t the only team to suffer a blocked field-goal attempt on Sunday, having Brandon McManus’ 43-yard attempt blocked with 27 seconds to go — a kick that, had McManus made it, would have broken a 10-10 tie and likely won the game — was a brutal blow.

Morgan was responsible for blocking Cleveland’s Shelby Harris, who got his hand on the ball. LaFleur said the coaches also thought cornerback Denzel Ward, who beat tight end Tucker Kraft off the edge in protection, also might’ve gotten a piece of it.

“The unfortunate thing about special teams in general is when there is a mistake, a lot of times they’re catastrophic mistakes,” LaFleur said Monday. “Obviously the end of the game, that’s a bad one to have happen.

“Bottom line, with us I think it comes down to just being disciplined and trusting your technique and what you’re coached to do on a daily basis. Unfortunately we got lifted, and we played with poor pad level, we didn’t take the correct steps and just didn’t perform the right technique.

“If you don’t do that against a really good team that’s going to rush hard, you’re susceptible to having a catastrophic event occur.”

Penalty problems | The Packers’ 14 penalties against the Browns were their most by a LaFleur-coached team and the most the team has had a game since 2010.

The Packers’ 28 penalties are tied for fourth-most in the NFL through three games, and the 192 penalty yards are 12th-most.

Seven of the Packers’ 28 penalties have been for false starts on offense, with five of the seven coming against the Browns. And that didn’t surprise LaFleur because they’d been an issue in practice, too.

“You see it in practice, it’s hard not to expect it in a game,” LaFleur said. “We have got to dial in better. We have to have better focus and concentration. Some of those are brutal.”

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