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Peter Bowden’s roster absence lasted only one week. On Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers brought back the rookie long snapper out of Wisconsin.

Last Tuesday, the Packers released Bowden from the 90-man offseason roster to make room for quarterback Jacob Eason, who was necessary to sign while Jordan Love and the Packers negotiated a new contract and only Sean Clifford and Michael Pratt were available to practice.

Back in Green Bay, Bowden will resume his competition with Matt Orzech at long snapper.

Bowden went undrafted out of Wisconsin, but he was highly regarded in the draft process. Dane Brugler of The Athletic had Bowden — who participated at the Senior Bowl — rated as the No. 1 long snapper in the draft class.

Bowden was a three-year long snapper for the Badgers. He ended up being a semi-finalist for the Patrick Mannelly Award — given the nation’s best long snapper — in 2022 and a finalist in 2023.

The Packers also signed rookie cornerback Don Callis on Tuesday. Packers Wire will update as more roster news is known.

The Green Bay Packers have six undrafted rookies that they signed following the 2024 NFL draft on their roster. Given the Packers’ rich history of UDFAs not only making the team but eventually becoming impact players, let’s get to know each of these signees.

Next up is Wisconsin long-snapper Peter Bowden. If you missed the previous profiles, you can find them below:

OL Donovan Jennings
RB Jarveon Howard
DT James Ester
LB Ralen Goforth

Height: 6-2
Weight: 239
RAS: 6.72

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Breakdown: Bowden was Dane Brugler’s No. 1 long-snapper in this year’s draft class. He had 358 career snaps on special teams with the Badgers. In 2022, Bowden was a semifinalist for the Patrick Mannelly Award and a finalist in 2023. On paper, it does look like Bowden could compete with Matt Orzech for the Packers’ long-snapper role. For what it’s worth, last season, Orzech had the third-lowest special teams grade among long-snappers from PFF–although the Packers do seem to like Orzech, particularly his big game experience as a Super Bowl Champion with the Rams. Perhaps the Packers view Bowden as an option at long-snapper beyond the 2024 season if they can stash him on the practice squad.

What NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein had to say: “Bowden has the experience for the job, but he will need to create better velocity to handle the duties of not only short snaps but long snaps as well. He’s likely a long shot to make an NFL roster.”

Rich Bisaccia on Bowden: “We’ve done a lot of work on him. We like Peter and I thought he did pretty good. He’s got good size, he’s athletic, he can move his feet. He’s working on the velocity of his snap. But I do think he’s going to have a chance and have an opportunity in the future to compete and play in the league.”