GREEN BAY — Xavier McKinney’s voice trailed off.

The Green Bay Packers first-team All-Pro safety was discussing his calf injury and how it had forced him to miss Thursday’s practice and how it’ll prevent him from playing in Saturday’s preseason opener at Lambeau Field against the New York Jets — a game in which head coach Matt LaFleur intends to play all his starters for at least a series.

“I’ll be good,” McKinney said after practice. “I’ll be ready. I’ll be ready when …”

What was McKinney going to say and stopped short of saying? The guess here is the rest of that phrase was “… when it counts.”

Because while LaFleur and many of his players do believe there’s value in preseason action, it most definitely does not count in the standings like the Sept. 7 regular-season opener against the

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