Green Bay Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari (69) plays during an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov 29. 2020, against the Chicago Bears in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur says he knows whether 2020 All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari will make his 2021 debut on Sunday at Kansas City.

He just isn’t planning to announce whether Bakhtiari will be available in order to make the Chiefs have to prepare for either scenario.

Bakhtiari hasn’t played since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Dec. 31.

He began the season on the physically unable to perform list, meaning he had to sit out the first six games. Bakhtiari has been practicing with the team recently, but the Packers (7-1) haven’t yet activated him.

Outside linebacker Za’Darius was back with the team Monday but wasn’t practicing. Smith hasn’t played since the season opener because of a back injury.

LaFleur said Smith’s situation was “more of a week-by-week case” and added that the 2020 Pro Bowl pass rusher “hasn’t even really done a whole lot of rehab with our guys yet.”