Rouse Gets Call To Replace Bigby

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Safety Aaron Rouse hadn't played since the first preseason game when he was thrown into action in the season opener last Sunday night, first for Nick Collins when he left the game with cramps, and later for Atari Bigby after he went out with a knee injury.

Unfazed by the long layoff, Rouse held his own as a fill-in, and now suddenly he's staring at full-time duty for perhaps a month or more, with Bigby's injury projected to keep him out at least four weeks.

"Hopefully (Sunday) night will be a good indication of what we're going to get, because he did a good job of coming in and picking up right where Atari left off," safeties coach Darren Perry said. "We tell our guys that you're only one play away, sometimes two plays away, from having two (new) guys in there, because it can happen that quickly.

"That's just a credit to him in terms of preparing and being ready to accept that challenge. That if something were to happen, that he could go in and be a guy we ..

Source: Packers.com