The Green Bay Packers believed midway through the 2022 season that quarterback Jordan Love was ready to replace Aaron Rodgers. Months after trading Rodgers to the New York Jets, Love reportedly hasn’t paid off the organization’s trust in him during training camp.
Love reported to training camp as the Packers starting quarterback, receiving all of the first-team reps and being implemented into a new-look offense built around his skill set. While the coaching staff tried tempering expectations for the first-year starter, teammates fueled the hype around Love.
- Jordan Love stats (NFL): 79.7 QB rating, 3-3 TD-INT, 60.2% completion rate, 7.3 ypa
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In the early days of Packers’ training camp, Love reportedly hasn’t looked anything like a surefire starter or a player who can be the next franchise quarterback for this storied franchise. Instead, for those watching practices every day, Love has often looked like the same quarterback who often struggled in very limited opportunities during his first two NFL seasons.
Appearing on Get Up, Packers’ reporter Rob Demovsky detailed Love’s struggles and inconsistency during the early days of training camp.
“We’ve seen Jordan Love have one really good day, maybe the best day we’ve seen in the four days he’s been here. He’s had one sort of decent day and the rest…you walk off the practice field thinking this might be a really, really long year.”
Green Bay Packers reporter Rob Demovsky on quarterback Jordan Love
Even the Packers have admitted that Love and the offense are struggling. Matt Schneidman of The Athletic covered the team’s offensive issues in-depth, focusing on how up-and-down the offense has been and highlighting “frustrating” moments for Love.
Of greater concern for Green Bay is where the offense is experiencing problems. As Demovsky further explained on ESPN, the Packers hold two-minute drills often at the end of each practice. Every time Love has run the two-minute drill, Green Bay’s offense lost and he and his teammates suffered the punishment for it.
“The two-minute drill specifically. Every day at the end of practice, they do a competitive drill, usually two minutes. The loser of the drill, whether its offense or defense, has to do a bunch of push-ups or up-downs. The offense has had to do it every time.”
Rob Demovsky on Green Bay Packers’ issues in the red zone during training camp
Many offenses are struggling right now in the early days of training camp. After hiring Sean Payton, the Denver Broncos offense doesn’t look any different right now than it did in 2022 with Nathaniel Hackett. However, the Packers restructured Love’s contract to keep him for two seasons and the organization strongly committed to him as the successor to Rodgers.
- Jordan Love contract: $4.409 million cap hit in 2023, $7.757 million cap hit in 2024
If Love proves he can’t be a viable starting quarterback, general manager Brian Gutekunst and the Packers’ staff will likely need to determine whether they have to spend their 2024 NFL Draft picks on a rookie quarterback.
