{"id":887386,"date":"2026-05-10T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:33:19","slug":"green-bay-packers-could-turn-to-najee-harris-for-rb-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/887386\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers Could Turn to Najee Harris for RB Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers<\/a> must figure out what is going on behind Josh Jacobs<\/a> on the depth chart at running back.<\/p>\n

As of now, it seems like the team is content to consider MarShawn Lloyd<\/a> the answer. If you’re looking at Lloyd’s draft slot only, that may make sense. The Packers selected Lloyd out of USC with the 88th pick (Round 3) of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

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At the very least, he should be a backup, right?<\/p>\n

The issue with Lloyd is that he’s incredibly injury-prone. When he’s healthy, he’s shown off flashy talent and athleticism, but he’s played in just one regular-season game over two seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n

He could absolutely be an X-factor<\/a> for the Packers, but trusting in him to remain healthy for a whole season would be unwise until he can prove that he’s actually able to do it.<\/p>\n

That makes Green Bay<\/a>‘s position at quarterback a bit perilous heading into 2026, because Jacobs, for as good as he is, can also be injury-prone.<\/p>\n

The Packers need an RB2 they can trust to carry the load if they asked him to. Emanuel Wilson<\/a> appeared to be that player, but they let him walk in free agency.<\/p>\n

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Could their answer to this question be answered in free agency as well, though? The post-draft market does have some “bargain bin” options available at this juncture.<\/p>\n

One who is being predicted to end up with the Packers is former first-round draft pick Najee Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That prediction comes from Jacob Infante of PFSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He believes the Packers will pick up Harris in free agency. This, even though the 28-year-old played in just three games last season for the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n

“He shouldn\u2019t be expected to take on the workload he did in Pittsburgh<\/a> earlier in his career, but he should still be effective for depth as a power back,” wrote Infante regarding Harris’ potential role with the Packers.<\/p>\n

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Harris suffered a torn Achilles tendon in Week 3 of the 2025 season, so that’s a major red flag considering the aforementioned injury concerns with Jacobs and Lloyd for the Packers.<\/p>\n

With that said, he did play in and start in all 17 games in each of his four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>, so it’s not like he has a long injury history. In fact, he has a history of being a bruising back who put up 1,000-plus yards in each of his first four seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Yes, the 2025 season was a disappointment, but everything else we’ve seen from Harris in his NFL career suggests that he, at the very least, would be a more than solid backup running back.<\/p>\n

In four seasons in Pittsburgh, Harris rushed 1,097 times for 4,312 yards and 28 touchdowns. He also caught 180 passes for 1,149 yards and six receiving touchdowns, so he undoubtedly brings a “dual threat” nature to his game as well.<\/p>\n

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The Packers could also get him on the cheap because he’s coming off that devastating torn Achilles.<\/p>\n

They have to believe he can actually make a comeback, of course, but there is no better backup running back option available if they do indeed make that determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers must figure out what is going on behind Josh Jacobs on the depth chart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[8431,7,41,345,2514,2513,4129,262,5393,4125,6,428,520,57],"class_list":["post-887386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-bay-packers","tag-emanuel-wilson","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-greenbay","tag-greenbaypackers","tag-josh-jacobs","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-marshawn-lloyd","tag-najee-harris","tag-nfl","tag-packers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116549832134328652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}