No morning practice today as the Packers prepare for tonight’s annual Family Night Scrimmage.

Evening activities get underway in the stadium at 5:30 p.m., followed by on-field football drills at 6:30 and the scrimmage at approximately 7:30.

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Packer Notes:

Packers.com posted Mike McCarthy’s press conference transcript from today and he commented on RB Ryan Grant.

“I think Ryan has had a very solid camp. It’s really our first time going through a full camp with Ryan. We acquired him the first year after training camp, and then last year obviously he had the hamstring injury. We get better every day.

I talk about the philosophy to the offense, you need to be strong up the middle, and the only way to get strong up the middle is to make sure those guys practice every day. I’m talking about the center, two guards, the quarterback and the halfback. When those guys are together every single day, you’ve got months and years of tying that together, that’s when the real offenses get clicking. Obviously you want everybody there every day, but we’ve had some moving parts at those positions, and I think the more we’re able to lock them down and get the constant reps with those players, I think the efficiency of our offense will stay at a high level.”

Tom Silverstein, from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, reports it’s Ryan Grant’s property right now, but if DeShawn Wynn can remain upright this season, the starting running back position for the Green Bay Packers might be a time share.

Questions continued to linger about whether he could get himself in shape enough to challenge Grant this summer. The answer after eight training camp practices is yes. “This is the best shape I believe he’s ever been in,” running backs coach Edgar Bennett said. “He’s strong; he’s lean and quick for a big guy. He’s a talented man.”

Pete Dougherty, of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, reports that Coaches ease Harrell’s workload heading into scrimmage. Dougherty says General Manager Ted Thompson has said he’d like to put his players in bubble wrap in training camp, and to some degree the Packers have done that with oft-injured defensive lineman Justin Harrell.

After the 2007 first-round draft pick made it through the first six days and seven practices without apparent injury, the Packers essentially took him off the field for the two workouts before Saturday night’s Family Night Scrimmage at Lambeau Field.

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