GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aaron Rodgers walked into the Green Bay Packers' locker room Thursday afternoon and, to hear him tell it, the music was blaring. He saw Davante Adams across the room and, since he knew he wouldn't be able to hear him over the din, gave him the thumbs-up-or-thumbs-down motion.

It was the quarterback's way of asking the receiver if he had cleared the concussion protocol and would be available to play in a few hours against the Chicago Bears.

"He gave me a thumbs up," Rodgers said. "And I felt pretty good about that."

He had the same feeling on the previous evening, when Ty Montgomery and Don Jackson -- the two players charged will filling in for running back Eddie Lacy, who was put on injured reserve -- went over the game plan with him in the quarterback's hotel room.

Not even Rodgers could have imagined what Adams and Montgomery pulled off in Thursday's 26-10 victory.

Only hours after he was cleared to play after a hit four days earlier against the Cowboys left him face down on the field and concussed, Adams came up one catch short of the Packers' single-game franchise record. He channeled his inner Don Hutson, who once caught 14 passes in a game. Adams finished with 13 for 132 yards and two touchdowns. He nearly doubled his season total for receptions in one game.

"In a sense, a statement game," Adams called it. "Especially coming off of getting hit last week, just to show my teammates more than anything, my teammates and the coaches."

No one carried a bigger burden than Montgomery, the second-year receiver who had to turn into a running back almost overnight. He carried nine times for 60 yards and for the second consecutive game caught 10 passes, this time for 66 yards.

"I think he's a running back now," Rodgers said.

And he didn't sound as though he was joking.

"He's been doing this for a while, actually," Rodgers said. "He's been running the ball from the backfield. We just extended his package in the four-receiver set where he's the back, where we allowed him to run some more routes from the backfield and also from the slot, kind of expanding on what we did against Dallas. He has a very good feel. Obviously, he's played receiver for a while, but he's got a good feel on the routes out of the backfield as well. I'm proud of Ty. He had a great focus this week."

Rodgers completed every pass he threw Montgomery's way, and it was his second straight game with 10 catches. After not being targeted in the first four games of the season, Montgomery has caught 20 of 21 targets for 164 yards over the past two games, with 13 of those catches coming out of the backfield.

The Packers lined up a receiver in the backfield on 50 of their 81 offensive plays, according to ESPN Stats & Information. On those 50 plays, Rodgers was 23-of-34 passing for 200 yards and 12 first downs, including eight completions to Randall Cobb and Montgomery out of the backfield.

Rodgers threw the ball 56 times, the second most in his career, and said afterward that's the way they might have to play for a while.

Not to be outdone, Cobb caught 11 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown, giving the Packers three players with double-digit receptions, only the second time in NFL history that has happened.

But after the game, Cobb was more interested to talking about Montgomery -- "Ty, he's a versatile player," Cobb said -- and Adams, who apparently was knocked out cold against the Cowboys.

"That was huge to see him come back from him being asleep on the field to coming back with 13 catches," Cobb said. "That's huge. I'm just happy to see him walking, let alone have a game like that.”