Jordan Love will request trade in 2023 if he doesn’t take over from Aaron Rodgers: report

Jordan Love has been sitting quietly by, waiting for Aaron Rodgers to step aside to make room for him. However, after three years, the backup first-round pick is running out of patience. According to Packers insider Jason Wilde via Yahoo News, the quarterback left the insider feeling that a trade request could be coming. Here's how Wilde put it:

“I had a really great conversation with Jordan [Love] on Friday afternoon. I think he very clearly, even though he wouldn’t flat-out say it, he does not want to sit for another year. So, if we get to year four, and Rodgers does come back, I am fairly confident that he will seek a trade.”

Aaron Rodgers is playing on a deal worth $150 million that runs through 2026. As it stands, unless the quarterback retires from the game, the Packers are on a trajectory to feature him once again in 2023. In other words, as Wilde put it, if this comes to pass, his indication is that Love will ask for a way out by the start of the 2023 season.

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Green Bay Packers QB Jordan Love's tutelage under Aaron Rodgers wrapping its third season

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Unless he takes over from Rodgers in the coming weeks in a permanent fashion, it will be three full years of holding the clipboard for Jordan Love. Love was drafted with the 26th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.

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Like No. 12 before him, Love spent his first full year out of public view, relegated to being a trivia question. In 2021, he became the full-time backup quarterback, starting one game in a losing effort. Over the course of the season, he threw for two touchdowns and three interceptions.

In 2022, while not starting a game, he did take over for No. 12 in a primetime spot against the Philadelphia Eagles. He completed a touchdown throw in the game and looked much more comfortable compared to 2021.