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Green Bay - Not only is CB Sam Shields still in the concussion protocol, he was not at practice Wednesday, raising questions whether he'll miss the playoff game at Washington Sunday.

Last week, Shields was able to take part in a limited portion of practice Wednesday and Thursday, but he was not cleared in time for the Sunday night game against Minnesota. He had been attending meetings and was said to be on the "back end" of the protocol process.

But Shields was nowhere to be seen Wednesday and it's not clear if he was worse off than last week or just doing some conditioning work somewhere else. Rookies Damarious Randall and Quinten Rollins have been seeing the majority of time at the outside positions with Casey Hayward playing mostly slot.

Left tackle David Bakhtiari (ankle) and guard Josh Sitton (back) were both at practice and riding the stationary bike when reporters were let in to the Don Hutson Center. It's possible that the two took some snaps in a walk-through before that.

Also sitting out practice were: DE Datone Jones (neck), OLB Jayrone Elliott (thigh) and TE Justin Perillo (hamstring). Elliott and Perillo were present, but Jones was not.

The official injury report is due out later this afternoon.

The Packers practiced in shells.