Few quarterbacks in NFL history have been saddled with a tougher act to follow than the Packers’ Jordan Love.
Love, entering his fourth season with Green Bay, is set to replace four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers after the Packers traded the future Hall of Famer to the Jets for draft compensation on April 24.
However, Rodgers—having replaced another Hall of Famer, Brett Favre, 15 years ago—is no stranger to Love’s situation. Accordingly, Love told reporters that Rodgers reached out to offer support after being traded.
“We talked after the trade,” Love told reporters Wednesday afternoon. “It was kind of just, ‘Wish you the best moving forward.’ He wished me the best, said he’d always be there if I needed anything or had any questions or anything.”
When Green Bay selected Love with the No. 26 pick in the 2020 NFL draft out of Utah State, it sent shockwaves around the industry. Love has played just 10 games in his first three seasons (and didn’t play at all in ’20), but he seems to have absorbed three years of Rodgers’s successes and setbacks.
“I’m always just grateful to be around him, for the time I had with him to be able to learn and be behind him,” Love said. “Just very grateful for it.”
