GREEN BAY — Micah Parsons would much rather have Lukas Van Ness and Devonte Wyatt on the field Sunday. 

But the Green Bay Packers star edge rusher believes he and the rest of the defensive line can pick up the slack for their injured defensive line teammates while they heal.

The Packers (3-1-1) on Friday officially ruled out both Van Ness, who injured his foot during last Sunday’s win over the Cincinnati Bengals, and Wyatt, who’ll miss his second straight game after injuring his knee at Dallas on Sept. 28, for their matchup against the Arizona Cardinals (2-4).

And Parsons, for one, insists the defense will be ready for anything — including whether the Cardinals start Kyler Murray, who is listed as questionable with a foot injury, or backup Jacoby Brissett, at quarterback.

“Bring it on. Come on. We’re getting paid a lot of money to do what we do. This is part of being your brother’s keeper. This is part of being a professional,” Parsons said of playing without Van Ness and Wyatt. “This is part of your preparation. Preparing to do more when it’s unrequired, that’s professionalism.

“[I told them], ‘Come on, brother. I got you. We going to hold it down and we’ll see you when you get back. Take your time.’ … Just get healthy and we’re going to take care of business until they get back.”

The Packers also ruled out wide receiver Christian Watson, who remains on the physically unable to perform list as he works his way back from last year’s season-ending knee injury.

Watson’s 21-day practice window opened last week but he said at midweek that he was hoping to stack “multiple weeks” of practice before returning to game action. The 21-day window will expire on Oct. 27, after the Packers play the Pittsburgh Steelers a day earlier.

Activating him on the final day of the window would mean Watson would be eligible to play in the Packers’ Nov. 2 game against the Carolina Panthers at Lambeau Field.

“Obviously we want to put me in the best position possible to be 100% me,” said Watson, whose practice workload increased this week from merely individual work the previous week. “[We’re] not trying to just get me out there just to be out there. It’s to get me out there for me to stay out there.”

Meanwhile, the Packers listed a whopping seven players as questionable for the game, including No. 1 running back Josh Jacobs (illness/calf), starting cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee), starting right tackle Zach Tom (oblique) and kicker Brandon McManus (right quadriceps).

Backup offensive linemen Anthony Belton (ankle) and Jacob Monk (hamstring, practicing but still on injured reserve) are also questionable.

Jacobs, who started the week on the report with the illness that had him vomiting throughout the team’s win over the Bengals, had the calf injury added to the report on Friday. It’s unclear when the injury occurred, as Jacobs did not come through the locker room during the media access period Friday. He was listed as having been a full participant in Friday’s practice, however.

Hobbs wasn’t on the injury report until Friday, and he was added as having been limited in practice. It’s unclear of Hobbs aggravated the knee injury he originally suffered in a July 31 training-camp practice that required surgery to trim the meniscus, or if he sustained a new knee injury.

Tom practiced on Thursday and Friday and said he feels much better than he did last week, when he played all 61 offensive snaps against the Bengals but was in excruciating pain after the game.

“I don’t want to speak too soon, but I feel like I’m ready to go,” Tom said after practice. “Really the biggest thing is just getting back into the rhythm of everything and getting back into shape, because that was definitely one of the battles I was fighting on Sunday — just [being] gassed.”

McManus followed the same protocol as last week, when he injured the quad in his kicking leg in practice on Wednesday and didn’t kick on Friday. He then kicked before Sunday’s game and the team decided to go with emergency kicker Lucas Havrisik when McManus admitted to feeling pain in his leg after kicking.

Havrisik, signed last Saturday, made all five of his kicks (two field goals, three extra points) and the Packers kept him on the roster this week as insurance.

“I don’t know if I was frustrated I didn’t get the opportunity to kick. I’d never missed a game, so I was frustrated that I did miss a game,” McManus said. “It ended up being a group decision, that we didn’t want me playing with pain too much to really aggravate it more.

“The warmup is one thing because it’s in a short time. But kicking for over 3, 4 hours in a game, they didn’t want to make it worse, they didn’t want to make it a three-, four-week type injury.

“Am I feeling better? Yes. And it’s kind of a similar process of what we’re game-planning to try to get up to.”

The Cardinals, meanwhile, appeared ready to start Brissett for the second straight week, giving him all the practice reps with the starters on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Brissett threw for 320 yards in last week’s 31-27 loss at Indianapolis, and the Cardinals had 400 yards of offense, their highest total of the season.

“There is film out there of me 1760767450, but whatever the case may be, when the opportunity presents itself I have to go out and do my job,” Brissett said.

Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who had been in the NFL’s concussion protocol, was a full participant in practice on Friday and cleared the protocol, leading to him being removed from the injury report. He will play.

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