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Green Bay — On second thought, the Green Bay Packers apparently did not dodge any bullets.

The hits keep coming.

Running back James Starks suffered a knee injury in Green Bay’s 23-14 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday and is in danger of being placed on injured reserve, ESPN Milwaukee reported Tuesday night. Starks would be the 10th player placed on IR.

The report indicated that Starks did not tear his anterior cruciate ligament but with only four games remaining it would make sense for the Packers to place Starks on IR to open up a spot on the 53-man roster. In the fourth quarter of the game, Vikings cornerback Josh Robinson drilled Starks’ squarely on the right knee. Starks limped off the field and appeared to be in pain on the sideline. Still, he re-appeared to carry the ball three times for nine yards on Green Bay’s final drive.

Starks finished the game with 15 carries for 66 yards with a touchdown in the win.

On Monday, coach Mike McCarthy indicated that some players were still being evaluated from the Vikings game, a list that could have included Starks. At that time, he stood by his plan then to stick with a two-pronged attack at running back in Starks and Alex Green.

“As we game plan, we’re going to stay the course the way we’ve gone, but if you feel one’s going a little better than the other maybe we’ll lean that way,” McCarthy said. “I leaned that way a little bit with James. I thought Alex running the ball did a very good job. He graded out a little better on video than I might have been aware of during the game, but I thought James ran the ball very hard.”

Yet now, it looks like Starks is faced with yet another injury. A torn hamstring sidelined the former University at Buffalo back for half of his rookie season, last year he was hounded by ankle problems and Starks’ 2012 season was delayed by a turf toe suffered in Green Bay’s exhibition opener. Starks didn’t play until mid-October and didn’t carry the ball more than five times until November.

Without Starks, it'd be on second-year Green to carry the load. This season, Green has 360 rushing yards on 109 attempts (3.3 avg.) and 22 receptions for 122 yards.

The only other healthy options on the roster right now are fullback John Kuhn and DuJuan Harris, who was elevated from the practice squad last weekend. Johnny White missed the Minnesota game with a concussion. Meanwhile, veteran Cedric Benson (foot) and Brandon Saine are both out for the season.