Inexperienced Bay quarterback Jordan Love is getting ready to request a commerce this offseason if he stays behind Aaron Rodgers within the pecking order, based on Packers insider Jordan Wilde.
Love has been 39-year-old Rodgers’ backup since he was drafted twenty sixth total by the Packers throughout the 2020 NFL Draft, and it seems his endurance is now carrying skinny.
‘I had a very nice dialog with Jordan [Love] on Friday afternoon,’ Packers reporter Jason Wilde stated. ‘I believe he very clearly, though he would not flat-out say it, he doesn’t wish to sit for one more yr. So, if we get to yr 4, and Rodgers does come again, I’m pretty assured that he’ll search a commerce.’
Jordan Love could also be planning to request a commerce this offseason, based on a current report
It will not be the primary time the Packers have needed to take care of controversy on the QB place throughout the Rodgers/Love period, as they lately spent the offseason on edge ready for Rodgers to resolve if he would return to the staff, because of his rocky relationship with administration.
Within the restricted motion he has seen throughout his time as Rodgers’ backup Love has accomplished 48 of 80 passes for 597 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions.
When subbed right into a recreation this yr in opposition to the Eagles, Love confirmed sufficient purpose to imagine that he’s lastly prepared for a bigger position than carrying a clipboard for one of many NFL’s most dominant gamers on the place after he threw for 113 yards and one landing, however nonetheless misplaced the sport 40-33.
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers smiles as he walks off the sector following a win in opposition to the Bears
Seeing as if Rodgers nonetheless has a number of years left on the large contract extension that he signed in March it’s extremely unlikely that the staff wouldn’t begin him once more subsequent season, until he decides to retire or calls for – and is granted – a commerce.
The Packers GM did, nevertheless, inform reporters this yr that the staff does intend to choose up the fifth-year choice in Love’s contract.
‘We’re actually happy together with his development, and what he is been in a position to do,’ Brian Gutekunst stated about Love.
‘I believe it will be actually good for him, the expansion that that you must undergo. Seeing issues for the primary time. Making the errors that that you must make. However I believe from our finish of it, we have seen what we have to see.’
If Inexperienced Bay have been certainly to choose up Love’s fifth-year choice it will come at the price of assured $20million, which is by all means beginning quarterback cash.
Many Packers followers on social media appeared to have the same opinion that they would like to maintain Jordan Love and hand him the reins on offense against the ultimate years of Rodgers profession