Adam Schefter Suggests Packers May Have Played Themselves Trading Up for Jordan Love
By Michael Luciano
The Green Bay Packers left everyone who values logic stunned when they traded up in the 2020 NFL Draft to select Utah State quarterback Jordan Love to back up Aaron Rodgers.
ESPN's Adam Schefter, who is as plugged in as anyone in the league, claims that the Packers didn't even need to move up to pick Love. In fact, it sounds like Brian Gutekunst and Co. may have been fooled into the move by the Indianapolis Colts.
Good info from @AdamSchefter on Jordan Love/Aaron Rodgers:
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) May 5, 2020
*Rodgers on the clock? You don't draft a QB in R1 and sit him for 4 years.
*Sounds like GB could've gotten Love without trading.
*#Colts never wanted to make a move.
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Schefter thinks that the Packers believed that Indy, who owned the No. 34 pick in the draft after a trade with the Washington Redskins, were going to trade up for Love after they had a pre-draft meeting with the Aggie gunslinger. The Colts did take a quarterback in the draft, but they waited until the fourth round to nab Washington's Jacob Eason.
The Packers gave up a fourth-rounder and their No. 30 pick to move up to No. 26 for Love. While Love has the arm talent, playmaking, and mobility to warrant that selection, he is a poor decision-maker on the field, which led to him throwing 17 interceptions during his final year in Logan.
This is wild: Jordan Love threw more pick sixes last year (3) than Aaron Rodgers has in his entire NFL career (2).
— Zach Kruse (@zachkruse2) April 28, 2020
Not only did the Packers shock the NFL world by picking Love, but they did so in a way that made them look unnecessarily desperate to do so. We won't find out if all this was worth it until a few years from now, but as it stands, they're not covering themselves in glory.