Maybe.
A couple things. What I think might benefit us is technically we don’t need to change his status until either the Lions game (12/5) or the following day (I’m not sure on the exact timing there). There’s really no hurry until then and that does benefit his cause. Imo, 75% he’s back by our Saints game on Monday Night at Lambeau (12/23).
We can’t make the mistake of going through 8 regular season games and on into the playoffs and never seeing any injury in that room. Dec 23rd is more than 5+ weeks post surgery. Most accounts athletes need about 3 weeks +- 1 week. That means he’s available for the last 3-4 regular season games + playoffs.
Worst case is in 3 weeks if something is still incredibly wrong we don’t activate him and by default it becomes season ending. Sorry to the ghost of CaptainWhim!! (He despised me using “season ending IR” terminology)