GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Kevin King sure sounds like someone who knows he needs surgery after the season.

The Green Bay Packers' top draft pick also sounds like someone who intends to play through the issue. The rookie cornerback is used to that, having battled this same shoulder problem since early in his college career.

"It's feeling all right," King said. "It definitely affects you, but it's something I've been going through for a while now. I'm all right."

Still, King insisted it won't be a problem the rest of the season.

"It won't be," King said.

How does he know?

"Because I know," he said. "It’s something I've been dealing with."

For a long time, apparently. King, who wears a harness on his left shoulder, tore his labrum as a freshman at the University of Washington. He said he underwent surgery to repair it and didn't have any issues with it until his final year of college, when he said he "kind of started tweaking it a little bit again."

That doesn't mean he won't have to address it after the season with surgery.

"There are different opinions," King said. "We'll decide if it gets to that."

King's shoulder has been an issue all season, dating to the early days of training camp when he missed practice time. He was a limited participant in practice this week as well.

The Packers limited King's workload last Sunday against the Bears by playing him only in the sub packages. Defensive coordinator Dom Capers instead used Damarious Randall in the base defense and then moved Randall into the slot when King came in to play the outside spot in the rest of the defensive calls. King played just 40 of the 60 defensive snaps after playing all but five snaps the previous week against the Lions.

"I think it was pretty obvious in the game on Sunday when he wasn't using two hands," Capers said. "He's a tough guy and he's done a good job working his way through it, but you can see that it's bothering him at times."

King hasn't made any game-changing plays so far but the 33rd overall pick in the draft leads the Packers with seven pass breakups.

"It's coming," he said. "It's coming. I'm not worried about it because it's coming. I'll just continue to be in the right place and the right time. You try to do too much, that's when your job gets out of whack.

"Really, those type of plays come when you play the right technique, you're doing everything [right], you're in the position you're supposed to. And then the quarterbacks, there might be an overthrown ball or underthrown ball or something like that where I can make those splash plays. They're coming. Being in the right place at the right time, it's going to come."