Dec. 25, 2025, 5:30 a.m. CT
For 26 years, long before there was the blue medical tent, we had one man – towel over shoulder, medicine bag in hand – running onto the field. Whenever a Green Bay player went down with an injury – and all of Packer Nation held its collective breath – the team sent out its trusted first responder: athletic trainer Pepper Burruss.
Skilled in evaluation and decisive under pressure, Burruss has always known a thing or two about healthy bodies.