GREEN BAY, Wis. — Most NFL players don’t like playing the “what if” game. For Jordan Love, that’s the only game he can play right now.
In his third year as quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ backup with the Green Bay Packers, Love believes he’s different.
A different player than when he came here as a first-round pick in 2020 and didn’t get a full rookie preseason because of the pandemic.
Different than when he struggled in his first and only NFL start last season at Kansas City.
And different even since the end of the summer, when he began to show signs of his potential.
Yet, here is the 24-year-old spinning in a vortex of unknowns that even he admits he thinks about from time to time.
What if Rodgers decides to play another year?
“Who knows?” Love said recently.
Another two years?
“We’ll see,” he said.
Either scenario could mean Love never becomes the Packers’ next quarterback and ends up playing somewhere else.
“It’s a possibility,” he said.
To date, Love has played the backup role much the same way Rodgers did in 2005, 2006 and 2007 behind Brett Favre. Rodgers never had to say what he would do if Favre returned to the Packers in 2008 because Favre was traded to the New York Jets. Perhaps he would have asked for a trade.
Love wasn’t ready to say whether he would, but he left open the possibility.
“We’ll see,” he said again. “I would obviously be in the fourth year of my contract, and it would be the team’s possibility of picking up my fifth year. It’s really on them to see what kind of moves they want to make, what they want to do with the future.”
If the Packers are of the belief they need to see more of Love in regular-season game action, then Sunday’s 31-28 overtime win over the Dallas Cowboys delayed any chance of…
