Packers committed to Jordan Love as franchise QB, but deal may wait til after draft

The Green Bay Packers are committed to Jordan Love as the team’s franchise quarterback, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

As far as a long term contract extension, that might have to wait until after the 2024 NFL Draft. As Fowler reported, the end of the season was great to Green Bay and Love.

Leading the Packers to the playoffs and a Wild Card victory over the Dallas Cowboys ensured he’d get paid.

“And you got Jordan Love,” Fowler said on SportsCenter. “He’s a quarterback who signed a short term extension last year, a one year sort of bridge deal to give him some security for the future. Well, he balled out at the end of the year to the point where the Packers will heat this up. They want to get this done and are committed to signing Jordan Love as a franchise guy but it could be after the draft. So nothing firm yet as far as a deal being imminent with any of these (quarterbacks), but Love will probably get his. It might just take a little bit of time.”

In his third year in the league, Love became the full time starter after sitting behind Aaron Rodgers. As Fowler said, he “balled out.”

In 17 games in the regular season, Love threw for 4,159 yards, 32 touchdowns, 11 interceptions and a 64.2% completion percentage.

“It’s a great feeling, man,” Love said this week on the The Pivot Podcast. “We’re all very hungry for this upcoming year. Like you said, the confidence from top to bottom is there. The organization believes that it’s the perfect time to have a chance to win a Super Bowl this year.

“Those conversations we had after that 49ers game were ‘Work harder, try and find ways to get better, because next year we’re gonna do it,’ “ Love said. “There’s no more ‘we’re a young team,’ there’s no more of those what ifs. People know what we’re about now. Obviously, we’ll have that target on our back now, people are gonna want to beat us. We’re hungry.”

Love was the No. 26 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft out of Utah State.

As a member of the Class of 2016, Love was a three-star recruit out of Bakersfield (Calif.) Liberty, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 164 overall prospect in the state, the No. 92 quarterback in the class and the No. 1,642 overall prospect in the class.