First Round Pick 2020, Jordan Love

[mraynrand]

Intriguing. If he's good, he'll make the defense better by being a scout team hero

he will audible to runs

[pbmax]

It is time to predict he contributes more then Baconator #1 in 2020 ?

I predict he will beat out the starter at his position.

JK Scott will be the backup placekick holder.

[beveaux1]

I predict he will beat out the starter at his position.

JK Scott will be the backup placekick holder.

LOL

[Deputy Nutz]

He has a easy, hitch free arm motion that produces a lot of zip on the ball.
His foot work seems legit
his intermediate passes are tight and fit in the correct window.
Combination of Favre and Rodgers with touch.

I watched this film and LSU defender #8 kept standing out. Ouch....

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[RashanGary]

He has a easy, hitch free arm motion that produces a lot of zip on the ball.
His foot work seems legit
his intermediate passes are tight and fit in the correct window.
Combination of Favre and Rodgers with touch.

I watched this film and LSU defender #8 kept standing out. Ouch....

He never looked rattled despite playing against NFL talent with a poor supporting cast. Tough competitor too.

[Bretsky]

Dude has talent. I would have loved the same guy/pick if this was 2 years later.

Yesterday I would have loved Patrick Queen

[HarveyWallbangers]

2018 - Utah State has their best record ever at 11-2. They finish in the top 25 for the third time in program history. They finish with double digit wins for the third time in program history. This is Utah State, not Utah. Not a good program historically.

2019 - They lose their coaching staff (Texas Tech hired their HC after the 2018 season) and 9 out of their other 10 starters on offense. Of course, things were going to be really rough. It might be a good thing for Love. He had to deal with adversity and maybe got humbled. Utah State still finished at 7-6--which was only their 6th winning season in the last 23 years.

[mraynrand]

I didn’t even watch the video. The lightning bolts were enough to convince me he is awesome!!

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sporting news

Grade : D
In an NFC where the 49ers, Buccaneers and Saints are in win-now mode, the Packers trading up for a potential successor to Aaron Rodgers makes little sense over a top wide receiver or offensive tackle to help him extend his Super Bowl window coming off a 13-3 season. Love (6-4, 224 pounds) matches his size with physical skills, including a big arm, and his athleticism bodes well if his accuracy, decision-making and footwork can become cleaner with good NFL coaching.

sbnation

This is the single most stunning selection in the first round by a long shot. The Packers traded into this pick, and the thought was that it would be for a wide receiver for Aaron Rodgers. Instead, they picked the veteran’s successor.

This pick could pay off big down the road. A quarterback on a rookie contract is almost priceless in today’s NFL. And Love is a player who needs to sit at least a year to fix some of his flaws. But with Rodgers, the Packers should push to win now.

Grade: D+

CBS

Grade: D. Terrible move by the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers told me last summer he wants to play until he's 40. They needed a receiver. They needed defensive help. Sitting behind Rodgers will do Love well, but not going to do the Packers well. You're on the cusp of getting to a Super Bowl, get Rodgers some help.

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nfl.com

Day 1 grade and analysis: A-
I thought Jordan Love was worth a first-round selection. The Packers did as well. In a mirror reflection of the 2005 draft, the Packers pick a first-round quarterback to learn behind Aaron Rodgers, just as they picked Rodgers to groom behind Brett Favre.

I believe Rodgers has at least a few more years of high-level performance in him -- should they have selected someone to help Rodgers excel during that time? Some Packers fans will think so. However, Love could help Green Bay win games over that span if Rodgers gets hurt again. Plus, there wasn't great value at receiver at the end of the first round; I expect the Packers to meet that need in Rounds 2 or 3 in a deep class. They also have needs at linebacker (Patrick Queen was available at No. 26), cornerback (same goes for Jaylon Johnson and Kristian Fulton) and right tackle (Josh Jones), but the players remaining at those spots did not offer as much value as Love. The Packers expect to pick near the end of the first with Rodgers as their QB1, so they figured they would get their guy while they could. They found value at the game's most important position.

They gave up the 30th pick in Round 1 and a fourth-round pick (No. 136) to get Love, which is standard fare for this type of move.

USA today FTW

D-

Landing with a team that already has a quarterback in place is ideal for Love, but I just can’t justify this from the Packers’ perspective. The Packers aren’t a team that has the luxury to draft for the future with Aaron Rodgers’ career winding down. Green Bay was an impact draft class away from competing for the Super Bowl. Even if Love drops all of the bad habits that littered his 2019 tape, this pick isn’t going to make the Packers, a team that should be in win-now mode, better any time soon.

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bleacher report

That sound you are hearing is Aaron Rodgers' teeth grinding. He is grinding them so hard it is registering on the Richter scale. But before we delve into the psychodrama that's about to get very real in Green Bay, let's look at Love for a moment.

Bleacher Report's Pinpoint-Accurate Quarterback Comparison: 70 percent as good as Patrick Mahomes equals 90 percent as good as Drew Lock equals, er, maybe 110 percent of Jake Locker?

Every team wants to draft the next Patrick Mahomes. But searching for the next Patrick Mahomes is a great way to get coaches, scouts and execs fired.

That's the paradox NFL evaluators face in the 2020s. Mahomes is the new template for a franchise quarterback, but it's a template loaded with negatives. Mahomes was erratic and made risky decisions as a college quarterback. The search for more Mahomes-types leads to lots of big-armed, mobile, wildly inconsistent talents. Invest too heavily in the wrong guy and you may end up fired for selecting an interception machine. But playing it safe with traditional dropback passers is a great way to end up with Mitchell Trubisky instead of Mahomes. It's a lose-lose.

We're making the Mahomes comparison because Love welcomed it at the Senior Bowl. "I like that comparison," Love said. "We've both got strong arms. He obviously makes ridiculous throws off-schedule and stuff like that. It's something that I've tried to model in my game, just trying to make throws like that. And I hope to be on the same platform as him."

To be clear: Love is not in the same league as Mahomes. He does have a great arm and improvisational skill, plus a quick delivery when he's operating from the pocket. But he's not the one-of-a-kind athlete Mahomes is, and he throws too many Jameis Winston-style passes directly to underneath defenders. A better comparison for Love is Denver's Drew Lock, who also inspired some Mahomes comparisons because of his knack for quirky big plays.

The Packers, of course, have plenty of time to develop Love. The question now becomes whether he will become what Aaron Rodgers was late in Brett Favre's career—part heir apparent, part challenger and burr in the saddle—or whether he will prove too erratic to mount a serious threat anytime soon.

But make no mistake: the Packers made a statement by trading up for Love. Rodgers heard it. And we'll be hearing a lot about the dynamic between this promising rookie and the ever-so-slightly (heh) temperamental incumbent in the weeks and months to come.

Grade: C, for "Combustible."

walterfootball

O'BRIEN Grade (not a good grade)
Wow. This is terrible. The people on TV are comparing this to the Aaron Rodgers pick from 2005, but the difference is that Rodgers was considered a No. 1 overall pick prospect who just happened to fall. Jordan Love was never that good. Love is an extremely raw quarterback who has some major decision-making issues. He has high upside, but chances are that he flops. This, of course, means that the Packers aren't helping Rodgers win now, so they might as well trade him. If I were a Packer fan, I'd be very disappointed right now, and I imagine Rodgers is quite upset as well.

Also, why the trade up? Whom were the Packers attempting to jump for Love? This is just a dumb pick.

nflspinzone

The Green Bay Packers have had plenty of success at taking quarterbacks who fall in the draft and letting them sit behind a proven veteran. They do what they did with Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre now with Jordan Love and Rodgers. This is a perfect situation for Love as he can mold his elite tools behind a future Hall-of-Famer in a budding offense.

Grade: A-

nesn

Grade: C In a vacuum, drafting Love — who some felt was a top-10 talent — makes sense given where Aaron Rodgers is in his career. But if the Packers feel they’re truly a 13-3 team that came within one win of a Super Bowl, which is what happened last season, it’s puzzling for them to make a pick that’s clearly made with an eye on the long-term future. There probably was a better way for them to improve in the short and long term with that pick, but maybe they just love Love.

fantasypros

Grade: D-
I laughed so hard when this pick was made. WHY!!!? Rodgers still has four years left on his contract so is Love ever going to start a game for Green Bay? Sure, Rodgers is 36 years old, but he is still playing great football and the team won 13 games last year! The very least they could have done was given him the weapon he’s been begging for over the past several years. Not only that, but Love was horrendous in 2019 against lackluster competition. Major yikes.

athlonsports

Aaron Rodgers can't like this pick! Great long-term move, but for a team that made it to the NFC title game last season, you do wonder about the immediate need. If it pays off though, talk about being set for three decades at the most important position in the field.



Grade: B

[call_me_ishmael]

I actually think the Jameis Winston comparison is apt.

[Joemailman]

Dude has talent. I would have loved the same guy/pick if this was 2 years later.

Yesterday I would have loved Patrick Queen

I agree with this. However, if Rodgers has to miss games due to injury, he probably gives the Packers a better chance to win games in Rodgers'absence than any other backup on the roster.

[smuggler]

Best understanding of the pick goes to nesn and athlonsports, red