“It’s a puzzle,” said Gutekunst, who brought back eight of the players he released as members of the practice squad Sunday. “There’s 53 (players) you can keep on the active roster and then you can keep (10) on the practice squad. That’s a little bit more the way we look at it. And as we were going through, we were just trying to keep the best 53 that would be available for this week’s game.

“Again, it’s a fluid situation that changes day by day.”

The most mystifying position is running back, where the Packers waived Joel Bouagnon, LeShun Daniels and Bronson Hill and waived/injured Devante Mays, a 2017 seventh-round pick who re-injured his hamstring in the preseason finale at Kansas City last Thursday night after missing nearly all of camp. Also cut were fullbacks Aaron Ripkowski and Joe Kerridge.

Bouagnon and Kerridge were re-signed to the practice squad Sunday, but as of now, it’s only Williams and the oft-injured Montgomery on the roster. The Packers have known about Jones’ two-game suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy for months, but none of the young backs in camp were deemed worthy of an initial roster spot.