GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers had to weather more than scorching temperatures in their Sunday afternoon road matchup with the Miami Dolphins.

They played the final 18 minutes of a taxing — and, ultimately, exhilarating — game without their top two cornerbacks. Sam Shields and Tramon Williams went out with injuries in a space of two plays late in the third quarter of Green Bay’s 27-24 comeback victory.

Shields dropped to the turf, apparently in an effort to get the officials to call time out, after he broke Green Bay’s defensive huddle hobbling as he started to move toward his position before the first play of a Dolphins series. Shields was diagnosed in the bench area with an injury to his left knee.

Forty seconds later, Williams joined Shields on the sideline after sustaining a left ankle injury.

Coach Mike McCarthy didn’t have an update on either player when he held his day-after-game news conference late Monday afternoon.

“I really don’t have information as far as a timeline,” McCarthy said. “Really, till we see what they can do on Wednesday will probably be a better indicator.”

However, the news for both cornerbacks as well as inside linebacker Jamari Lattimore, who went out with a neck injury in the first half, wasn’t all bleak.

McCarthy relayed a conversation Monday between general manager Ted Thompson and team doctor Pat McKenzie that indicated the injuries for all three players aren’t considered long term.

“But how fast (the recovery is all three) is still to be determined,” McCarthy said.

More on the injuries won’t be known until the players reconvene for meetings and practice Wednesday, ahead of Green Bay’s game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday at Lambeau Field.

The Packers relied on their depth at cornerback to make do without Shields and Williams. They plugged in Casey Hayward and Davon House, who were alternating as the team’s nickel back this season, to man the perimeter spots. Veteran Jarrett Bush assumed the nickel role and was picked on a few times by quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who led the Dolphins to three consecutive touchdowns in the second half as Miami grabbed a 24-17 lead.

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers rallied the Packers with 10 unanswered points in the closing minutes.

Green Bay had to go with former starting linebacker Brad Jones in place of the injured Lattimore for most of the game. Jones had another disappointing effort.

The elation of pulling out the victory on Rodgers’ 4-yard touchdown pass to tight end Andrew Quarless with three seconds left may have provided a jolt for the return trip to Green Bay.

Regardless of the outcome, however, McCarthy said Monday his players persevered amid the oppressive conditions of temperatures in the upper 80s, high humidity and glaring sunshine at Sun Life Stadium. It was the hottest game for Green Bay since it lost 38-28 at Tampa Bay on Nov. 8, 2009, when temperatures also were in the 80s.

McCarthy credited the team’s enhanced training regimen that goes back to the start of the preseason for being able to cope with Sunday’s conditions. The Packers hired Adam Korzun as their first director of performance nutrition in late July.

Green Bay posted its first win in four games played in Florida since Rodgers became the starting quarterback at the outset of the 2008 season.

“We did some things a little differently this time, and definitely the results are there,” McCarthy said. “I thought our players handled it very well. Just the conscientious effort of hydration, even on the plane (ride after the game). I don’t think I’ve seen that many guys go to the bathroom that much on a plane flight in my time. So, it was a pretty active flight.”

During the game, the Packers took the unusual measure of shading players with support staff holding up big white awnings over them on the benches.

McCarthy suggested Monday he would be careful to not extend players on the field when practice resumes Wednesday.

“You have to be smart about it,” he said.

NOTES: DE Datone Jones didn’t play Sunday at Miami because of a sprained right ankle. Josh Boyd, who had missed the previous game with a knee injury, helped man the spot opposite DE Mike Daniels. … WR Jarrett Boykin missed a third consecutive game due to a groin injury. Rookie Davante Adams has supplanted Boykin as Green Bay’s No. 3 receiver. Adams contributed season highs of six catches and 77 receiving yards in eight targets in the win.

REPORT CARD VS. DOLPHINS

–PASSING OFFENSE: B-minus — The numerous quarterback hits, the few dropped passes and the spotty passing accuracy that transpired in the course of the first 58 minutes of game action didn’t matter. Shrugging off the torrent of adversity on a stifling afternoon in South Florida, QB Aaron Rodgers delivered when the outcome mattered. Rodgers engineered a game-winning drive by taking the offense on a suspenseful 11-play, 60-yard excursion in a mere two minutes, one second without any timeouts, culminating with a 4-yard touchdown pass to TE Andrew Quarless with three seconds left. The game would have ended about a minute earlier if not for RG T.J. Lang falling on the football that was stripped from Rodgers on a sack near midfield. (Because that recovery was after the two-minute warning, the recovery for a 2-yard advance should not have been allowed. Inside the final two minutes, only the player who fumbles can recover for an advance). Rodgers finished 24 of 42 for 264 yards and three touchdowns. He did not throw an interception for a personal-best-tying fifth consecutive game.

–RUSHING OFFENSE: C — The Packers reached the century mark in rushing yards for the second straight game after failing to do so in each of their first four contests. However, the manner in which they compiled 121 rushing yards was far from pretty. For a while, Rodgers threatened to be the team leader. He had seven rushing attempts for 34 yards, thanks mostly to darting scrambles out of the pocket from a swarm of pass rushers. Rodgers also had a nifty 8-yard run up a vacated middle of the field on a quarterback draw in shotgun with an empty backfield to convert third-and-8 in the game-opening series, which ended with a touchdown two plays later. The halfback duo of Eddie Lacy and James Starks was mostly ineffective through three-plus quarters as head coach/play-caller Mike McCarthy made liberal use of rotating them amid the oppressive conditions. Lacy had 40 yards (long of 10) on 14 carries, averaging just 2.9 yards per touch.

–PASS DEFENSE: C — Interceptions by CBs Casey Hayward and Sam Shields against Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill were long forgotten in a predominantly miserable second half for Green Bay’s defense. The previously struggling Tannehill caught fire in leading three straight touchdown drives to put Miami ahead by a touchdown. The Packers’ defense started to wilt with more time expended on the field in the heat after being out there for nine minutes in the first half. Compounding matters was the loss of both starters at cornerback — Shields (knee) and Tramon Williams (ankle) — only two plays apart late in the third quarter. Tannehill and his receivers went to work in exploiting Green Bay, which was relying on sparingly used veteran Jarrett Bush at nickel back. Hayward and LB Brad Jones, who replaced an injured Jamari Lattimore earlier in the game, missed tackles.

–RUSH DEFENSE: B — The Dolphins came into play with the league’s fifth-best rushing offense and with seemingly a mismatch in their favor against Green Bay’s worst-rated run defense. Consider what unfolded Sunday a win within the bigger win for the Packers. Green Bay allowed 112 rushing yards — 51 fewer than its gory season average after five weeks. More than a third of Miami’s total came on one play, and from an unlikely source. Tannehill tucked the football away on a read option out of shotgun and hustled 40 yards downfield early in the third quarter. OLB Clay Matthews, who had a lackluster game, bit on the play-action fake by Tannehill by crashing into the line from his spot on the right side. That allowed Tannehill to break free around left tackle, and he continued on into more open field after Williams missed a tackle. Tannehill averaged 16.3 yards with 49 yards on three keepers. Starting HB Lamar Miller was just a shade better with his output with 53 yards on 14 carries. Miller had only one explosive run (14 yards). RB Knowshon Moreno’s return to the Miami backfield after a two-game absence because of an elbow injury was uneventful. He had six carries for all of 10 yards.

–SPECIAL TEAMS: C-minus — Green Bay had a penchant for miscues on special teams. Lattimore whiffed on a block of Jonathan Freeny in the middle of the line, and the Dolphins linebacker easily blocked a punt by Tim Masthay inside the Green Bay 20 in the first quarter. Miami failed to capitalize on the big play, however. The Dolphins also got kickoff returns of 54 and 37 yards from Jarvis Landry.

–COACHING: B-minus — Bottom line is that the Packers won. McCarthy rolled the dice with a little more than four minutes left when he sent K Mason Crosby in for a late field goal with Miami up 24-17 and the Packers’ facing fourth-and-6 at the Dolphins’ 12. He was putting his faith in a short-handed and fatigued defense that had just surrendered three consecutive touchdowns to the Dolphins in the second half. The defense justified McCarthy’s faith by getting the key stop to force Miami to punt in its territory and give Rodgers and the offense enough time to carry out the dramatic finish.