The injury report is a must study in the NFC North each Friday.
November is going to be a brutal month for NFC North teams and none of the four teams can afford overloaded injury reports. There’s a game-and-a-half gap between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions with Minnesota and Green Bay in between them. The upstart Bears are 4-3, the Vikings are 4-3-1, the Packers are 3-3-1 and the Lions are 3-4. See, it’s a tight race.
The way the month is shaping up the NFC North teams the all four teams can do serious damage to playoff hopes or playoff seedings. NFC North teams face each other five times this month. Unless one team gets hot, there is a good chance the NFC North leader could come out of the month one game over .500 or just .500.