Despite not making a single throw in practice this week, quarterback Aaron Rodgers is prepared to start for the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Seattle. Coach Mike McCarthy said the team made a medical decision to keep Rodgers, who has a sprained right shoulder, from throwing in practice Friday. “Dr. (Pat) McKenzie in his evaluation this morning felt it was best for Aaron not to throw today.

The dare has been put out there for the Packers’ bumbling run defense.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren is all but resigned to the consequences of having an injury-depleted receiving corps. He understands he’ll have to tone down his bread-and-butter West Coast passing attack in favor of a run-first game plan.

“The huge emphasis has to be on getting better running the football,” Holmgren said Monday. “It appears as though that is going to have to be a big part of success for us this year.”

With that knowledge, the ball will be in the Packers’ court Sunday when they play at Seattle and will try to end a three-game slide that has their season teetering with a 2-3 record.

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Five games, four performances of 100-plus yards by opposing running backs. A rookie quarterback on a team that’s supposed to be rebuilding handing the Green Bay Packers their third straight loss, and leaving Lambeau Field without getting a chance to feel what it’s like to hit the tundra. That’s not the dominant defense Packers coach Mike McCarthy envisioned for the post-Brett Favre era.

The Green Bay Packers placed defensive end Cullen Jenkins on injured reserve Wednesday because of a chest injury, ending his season. Jenkins was hurt in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game at Tampa Bay while attempting to sack Buccaneers quarterback Brian Griese. Jenkins is believed to have a torn pectoral muscle, saying Monday that he couldn’t lift his right arm above shoulder level.

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The outlook for injured Green Bay Packers cornerback Al Harris is encouraging. Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Friday that Harris, who suffered a serious spleen injury Sunday night, could return to the team before the midpoint of the season. “I would say it’s going to be at least three to four weeks,” McCarthy said of a timetable for when Harris might be ready to return to the field.

Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy confirmed Wednesday that cornerback Al Harris suffered a “serious” spleen injury.

The Green Bay Packers should be in good shape for their Sunday night game against Dallas, listing running back Ryan Grant and cornerback Charles Woodson as probable on the injury report. Packers coach Mike McCarthy said after practice Friday that Grant and Woodson would play Sunday. Grant went through the full practice after being off the field most of the week to allow extra recovery for a sore…

Brett Favre used to say that he could simply nod to Donald Driver or whack Bubba Franks in the behind after breaking the huddle, and they’d immediately know what he was thinking. But Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings says there’s only one piece of evidence that really proves a quarterback and receiver are on the same page.