Free-agent additions have come as advertised for Packers

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A week after terming the Packers’ 26-11 loss to Los Angeles “a wake-up call,” Za’Darius led the bounce back with one of his best games in a Packers uniform against the Panthers, with Mike Smith charting him for 14 pressures.


“It’s nice to have guys who want to be great, who want to win and they want to put the time in to work,” Mike Smith said. “When you have that, to me it’s hard to fail. It’s hard to beat someone who never gives up. That’s who they are.”


Turner was a bit of an NFL vagabond prior to signing his long-term deal with Green Bay. A third-round pick in 2014, the 6-foot-5, 310-pound offensive lineman had stints in Miami, Baltimore and Denver during his first five seasons.


It was with the Broncos Turner eventually carved out a permanent starting role, though his 2018 season still saw him shifting positions, making seven starts at right guard and four at right tackle.


While versatile enough to play tackle, Turner has been able to settle into the right guard post in Green Bay. Through 10 games, he’s also the only player to see the field for all 670 offensive snaps.


Perhaps based on his professional background, Turner isn’t easily rattled by change or uncertainty. Now in his sixth NFL season, he’s developed an innate ability to adjust to any circumstance.


“I was impressed with his physicality and his athleticism and all that,” said offensive line coach Adam Stenavich of his first impression of Turner at the start of the year. “Whenever you bring a new guy in, you never know what kind of personality he’s going to have, but he’s been awesome. Great personality, hard worker, really adds a lot to our room. We’ve been lucky.”


Out of the four signees, Amos was the one the Packers were most familiar with given his 56 starts in the Chicago Bears’ secondary over the past four seasons.


In his first season with the Packers, the 6-foot, 214-pound safety has been a galvanizing presence in a secondary that lost Raven Greene to injury after Week 2 and played without rookie safety Darnell Savage (ankle) for two games in October.


Nursing a hamstring injury of his own that kept him out of practice two days last week, Amos played all 73 snaps against Carolina and made perhaps the biggest defensive play of the afternoon when he deflected a Kyle Allen pass into the arms of cornerback Tramon Williams, who secured the interception in the Packers’ end zone.