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Green Bay - Packers RB Eddie Lacy has an irritated left eye, the result of something that went wrong with his contact lens.

He is going without the lens this week and is hopeful that his eye will be fine so he can start wearing the contact lens on Saturday.

But what if it isn't? Would he wear goggles?

"You’re like the third person to throw that idea out there and I refuse," Lacy said. "I don’t want to say I refuse because I might because I think it will be better than wearing contacts, but that’s kind of old-fashioned."

Yeah, but there are guys who have signature looks.

"That’s what I get, Eric Dickerson," Lacy said of when he thinks of goggles.

Lacy said he wears extended wear contacts and when one started irritating his eye, he immediately took it out. But it had already done enough damage that he has not been able to wear it again since.

He was limited in practice Thursday, but he isn't expected to miss any time Sunday against Tampa Bay.

"I have no idea," Lacy said when asked what the diagnosis is. "Honestly. I know I was coming home from a signing and my contact started … I took my contact out and I guess it just got super-irritated."

Lacy said his plan is to wear the contacts Sunday.

"I’m going to just take it out right after the game," he said.

Asked how bad it is for him without his contacts, Lacy said he could barely read a nameplate on a locker across the room from him.

"Let’s just say I’m very blind," he said. "I can’t see Scott’s (Tolzien) name over there if I close my right eye."

Though he isn't in favor of wearing goggles, he did say he plans to buy a pair of glasses so he doesn't have to wear his contacts all the time.