After he missed the final two games of the season for the Green Bay Packers (7-9) due to a knee injury, cornerback Damarious Randall will undergo minor surgery for a separate hand injury on Monday. The news was revealed in a tweet by ESPN's Adam Schefter, which also said that the recovery process should take between six to eight weeks.
Packers’ CB Damarious Randall is undergoing hand surgery today and will need six to eight weeks to recover, per a league source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 15, 2018
Randall, who led the Packers with four interceptions on the season, was benched during a Week 4 contest against the Chicago Bears but bounced back by recording an interception in each of Green Bay's next three games. In the Packers' thrilling 35-31 Week 5 win over the Dallas Cowboys, Randall had a 21-yard pick-six off quarterback Dak Prescott.
According to an article earlier this month by Ryan Wood and Michael Cohen of Packers News, Randall chimed in after defensive coordinator Dom Capers' firing that the players needed to be held more accountable by the coaches for their inconsistent play. Head coach Mike McCarthy apparently wasn't too happy about what his top cornerback said.
“You’re talking about words of frustration,” McCarthy said. “I’ll tell you what I told Damarious. He needs to focus on himself. He’s got to clean his own house. That’s what I look for him to do in the offseason. He did a lot of really good things.
“We all understand what happened in the Chicago game (when Randall pouted after being beaten for a touchdown and was sent to the locker room), but I thought from the Chicago game on he played at a very high level. He probably played his best football of his career, but then he didn’t play the last two games.”
The Packers, who missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2008-09 season during star quarterback Aaron Rodgers' first season as the team's starting quarterback, recently hired former Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine as their new defensive coordinator for the 2018-19 season. Pettine also has plenty of experience as the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills' defensive coordinator under former head coach Rex Ryan.
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