The Green Bay Packers’ Week 6 installment of “Mic’d Up” could have some extra flavor. Running back Josh Jacobs was wired for sound during Green Bay’s 27-18 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, and he told reporters that he had thrown up during the game.
“I did a couple times,” Jacobs said. “It was a couple times. I was mic’d up, so I don’t know if they’re going to put that in there or not. But it was a couple times I was on the field, and I was like coughing. Everybody like, ‘Man, you all right?’ I’m like, ‘We’ll figure it out.’”
The former Alabama ball-carrier figured it out well enough to run for 93 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries and catch five passes for 57 yards. He had his second straight game with two touchdowns and at least 150 yards from scrimmage.
“I ain’t feel too good today,” Jacobs said. “I mean, you can kind of tell right now, I don’t feel the best. Throwing up, you know, during the game, before the game. I really don’t know where it came from. Just kind of woke up this morning just not feeling my best. But I told them, I said last time that I felt that way I had 130 and two touchdowns. So it is what it is.”
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Jacobs scored on a 3-yard run as Green Bay took a 10-0 lead with 4:05 left in the first half and on a 14-yard run as the Packers went in front 17-7 with 14:56 left to play.
Jacobs lifted his career total to 65 rushing touchdowns as he became the 14th player in NFL history to have that many in his first 95 regular-season games.
With six rushing touchdowns in five games in 2025, Jacobs became the fourth running back this century with at least six in each of his first seven NFL seasons, joining Ezekiel Elliott, Adrian Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson.
“That second touchdown, I could have probably fell and got up and still scored,” Jacobs said. “Probably one of the best blocked plays I’ve ever had in my career, so shoutout to O-line.”
Green Bay got left guard Aaron Banks and right tackle Zach Tom back from injuries for Sunday’s game.
The Packers’ only loss this season is the only Green Bay game in 2025 without a touchdown by Jacobs – a 13-10 defeat by Cleveland on Sept. 21 in which the Browns limited Jacobs to 30 yards on 16 rushing attempts.
Before their bye in Week 5, the Packers played to a 40-40 tie with the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 28. Jacobs ran for 86 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries and caught four passes for 71 yards against Dallas.
“It feels good as a runner to be able to feel like you dominating,” Jacobs said about Sunday’s performance. “And that’s always a thing that you can always feel, you know, especially on offense when the defense start to get tired of you hitting them, start to get tired of you going right at them. And that’s something that we definitely felt.”
Despite his performance against the Bengals, Jacobs did not get the game ball.
“We didn’t do the offensive game ball,” Jacobs said. “We just did the kicker. He just came in here yesterday. I don’t even know his name. I feel bad saying that. But he came in and made some big-time kicks for us, so, man, he got the game ball. He deserved it.”
With kicker Brandon McManus dealing with a quadriceps injury on his kicking leg, Green Bay signed Lucas Havrisik after a workout on Saturday. Havrisik’s previous NFL experience was nine games with the Los Angeles Rams in 2023.
Havrisik made a 43-yard field goal with 14:15 left in the first half for the Packers’ first points and a 39-yard field goal with 1:52 to play for Green Bay’s final points. In between, he kicked three extra points.
With a 3-1-1 record, the Packers return to the field against the Arizona Cardinals at 3:25 p.m. CDT Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
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