Cheese Curds, 7/5: Dillon and Bakhtiari families are getting bigger

The full extent of AJ Dillon’s role for the Green Bay Packers in 2022 is yet to be determined. Last season, he and Aaron Jones split touches almost evenly — Jones had 223 to Dillon’s 221 — but Jones missed a pair of games due to injury. Still, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Jones used a bit differently this season, moving around the formation more often and lined up on the field at the same time as Dillon with regularity.

But whatever Dillon’s role will be on the field, he’s taking on a new one off the field this summer: husband. He recently got married during the team’s summer break, a story that should bring some smiles to Packers fans after this long weekend.

Meanwhile, Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari is relatively recently married himself, having tied the knot to his wife early this year. Now the two are expecting a new addition as Bakhtiari works to get back on the football field at the start of training camp.

Speaking of training camp, we’re just three weeks away from players reporting and 22 days away from the first practice of the summer. The Packers’ team president spent some time looking ahead to camp in his monthly Q&A, which you’ll also find in today’s curds along with much more.

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Dillon got married to his fiancée Gabrielle in his adopted home of Door County last weekend, while Bakhtiari and his wife Frankie are expecting their first child. Congrats to the growing families!

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Mark Murphy looks ahead to training camp and discusses future non-football events at Lambeau Field in this month's Q&A.

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