It has now been six weeks since Green Bay Packers rookie cornerback Kevin King had surgery to repair a nagging labrum injury in his left shoulder. Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst expects the team's No. 33 overall pick to make a full recovery.

According to an article written on Thursday by Michael Cohen of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Gutekunst opened up to the media and is confident that King will be back to 100 percent before the start of the 2018 NFL season.

“I wouldn’t think so,” Gutekunst said. “It sounds like everything is going good. You never like to see that with young players, but yeah, I don’t think so.”

In an interview back in early August with Bill Huber of Packer Report, King said that his left shoulder problems went back to his college days as a freshman at Washington when he tore his left labrum. However, King downplayed the seriousness of his shoulder issue heading into his rookie season.

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“That was something I had a little problem with in college a little bit but it’s something that I’ve been dealing with and I know how to deal with it,” King said. “It’s something that I know is not major.”

Cohen also stated in his article that Gutekunst had a lot of experience with shoulder issues as well during his own playing career, citing a dozen shoulder dislocations and multiple surgeries.

“These are young, healthy, high-level athletes,” Gutekunst said. “So I think hopefully — knock on wood — everything should be good there.”

In nine games this season for the Packers before he was placed on injured reserve on Dec. 6, King made 28 tackles and had five pass deflections.