Jordan Love Breaks Silence on Packers Future, Possible Trade
Jordan Love’s NFL experience through three years with the Green Bay Packers is a throwback, and vastly different than the professional life most of his contemporaries have known.
It used to be commonplace for a first-round quarterback prospect to sit at least a year or two before being thrown into a sink-or-swim scenario as a starter.
Aaron Rodgers himself rode the pine for three seasons behind Hall-of-Fame gunslinger Brett Favre before he got his shot, a waiting period that appears to have served the four-time MVP quite well.
But Green Bay was committed to Rodgers even in his youth, so much so that the franchise moved on from Favre who still had a great season in him — one he played out for the Minnesota Vikings two years later, falling one win and a “Bountygate” scandal shy of a Super Bowl appearance.
The opposite appears true where Love is concerned. While the futures of most NFL quarterbacks have been decided — or can at least be projected with relative accuracy — after three seasons, Love’s career has yet to really begin.
ESPN’s Rob Demovsky asked Love outright on Wednesday if he will be asking the Packers for a trade come this offseason, as a lack of starting experience has kept his feet out of the football fire for so long that Love has begun to feel left out in the cold.
“We’ll see,” Love responded. “I would obviously be in the fourth year of my contract, and it would be the team’s possibility of picking up my fifth year. It’s really on them to see what kind of moves they want to make, what they want to do with the future.”
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