One day after trimming their roster to 53, the Green Bay Packers kept a familiar name in the building. Wide receiver Isaiah Neyor, waived Sunday during final cutdowns, was signed back to the practice squad Monday as Green Bay filled out its developmental group.
Neyor is 6-foot-4 and 218 pounds, the kind of long, physical target the Packers have long preferred on the outside. He went undrafted in 2025 after finishing his college career at Nebraska, following stops at Wyoming and Texas.
Green Bay first signed him last August after the San Francisco 49ers released him. He spent the entire 2025 regular season on the practice squad and was elevated for the NFC wild-card game against Chicago, playing three offensive snaps.
That same size-and-speed profile is why the Packers keep circling back. At Wyoming in 2021, Neyor was a second-team All-Mountain West receiver, catching 44 passes for 878 yards and 12 touchdowns.
He averaged 20 yards per catch and regularly took the top off coverages — the explosiveness that first made him a transfer target.
Injuries and crowded depth charts limited him at Texas. At Nebraska in 2024 he finished with 34 catches for 455 yards and five scores. Across his college career he totaled 87 receptions for 1,595 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Pre-draft testing backed the tape. Neyor ran a 4.40-second 40-yard dash and posted elite explosion numbers, including a 38-inch vertical and an 11-foot-1 broad jump, earning a near-perfect Relative Athletic Score. Those tools showed up again this preseason.
He led the Packers with 10 catches for 100 yards across three games and recorded at least three receptions in each outing. A drop on a potential long touchdown in the finale against Arizona likely cost him a 53-man spot, as undrafted J. Michael Sturdivant won the last receiver job instead.
The practice squad is a logical next step. Green Bay kept six receivers on the active roster, with Savion Williams on injured reserve with a designation to return. Neyor and Chris Hilton Jr. give the team two extra bodies who already know the offense.
Under current rules, two practice-squad players can be elevated each week. Neyor has already been through that process once.
For a second-year player still only 25, the move keeps him in a scheme that values his length and vertical speed. If injuries hit the receiving corps — a frequent story in Green Bay — Neyor will be first in line to contribute.
For now, he remains a high-upside reserve whose college explosiveness and preseason production were enough for the Packers to bring him back.
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