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GREEN BAY — Randall Cobb’s hamstring injury is serious enough that he said Monday that he wasn’t even close to playing in the Green Bay Packers’ 22-0 victory over the Buffalo Bills.

That means the Packers receiving corps could have a decidedly youthful flavor for Sunday’s game at Detroit, with Cobb working his way back from the hamstring injury and Geronimo Allison in the concussion protocol after going down against the Bills.

“I wouldn’t have been able to play this week. As much as I would’ve wanted to, I couldn’t be out there running at full speed. So it’s no reason to take that risk,” Cobb said. “It’s feeling better. I made strides the past couple days and hopefully I can continue to make those strides.”

Cobb was coming off what he considered to be the worst game of his career, dropping a pair of crucial passes and losing a critical fourth-quarter fumble in the team’s Sept. 23 loss at Washington. Allison dropped three passes against the Bills before the last of his drops led to him taking a hard hit and missing the rest of the game.