The Green Bay Packers and New York Jets ripped off the bandage regarding the uncertainty about Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers‘ future as the two teams completed a trade Monday that will finally send him to New York. This means the quarterback Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst moved up four picks to select 26th overall in the 2020 NFL Draft will be the team’s full-time starter.
Jordan Love has humongous shoes to fill given that Rodgers is the team’s all-time leader in passing touchdowns with 475, won a Super Bowl and Super Bowl MVP, four NFL MVPs (the second most in league history) and put up the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history (4.52, 475/105) during his 18 seasons in Green Bay (15 as the starter), which also makes Rodgers the team’s longest-tenured player.
“I’m debatably the best player in franchise history. I’m definitely in the conversation,” Rodgers said on “The Pat McAfee Show” recently. “What’s not debatable is I’m the longest-tenured Packer in team history… No one has bled green and gold like me.”
However, the future first-ballot Hall of Famer has full confidence that his successor will end up having a similar career trajectory that he did when following in Hall of Famer Brett Favre’s footsteps — a great one.
Passing the baton
“They’re ready to move on with Jordan. That’s awesome,” Rodgers said. “Jordan is going to be a great player. He’s a f—ing great kid. He had a really great year this year, getting better on the look team [scout team]. He’s got a bright future in front of him. They have a good young team. … They’re ready to move on, and so am I.”
Green Bay’s Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones also expressed his confidence in Love back on Feb. 12.
“It’s hard to replace somebody like that [Rodgers],” Jones said. “But I think if that was to happen, Jordan is definitely ready.”
The football world got to see a glimpse of what Rodgers was talking about when he mentioned Love’s growth running Green Bay’s scout team in Week 12 of the 2022 season. The Packers were playing the eventual NFC champion Eagles in Philadelphia on “Sunday Night Football” when Rodgers went down with an injury to his ribs in the fourth quarter. The 24-year-old backup came in to start his first drive of the game with the Eagles ahead 37-23 with 11:11 left to play.
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