The Green Bay Packers made significant investments in Jordan Love’s supporting cast over the past two offseasons, including adding rookies Matthew Golden and Savion Williams to the receiving corps in hopes that the young quarterback makes a leap.
So far, as training camp grinds on, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur is already seeing a significant difference in Love.
“Night and Day,” LaFleur told ESPN, of Love’s improvement from last season to this summer.
Last season, Love and the Packers’ season came to a careening halt in an NFC Wild Card loss in Philadelphia to the eventual Super Bowl champion after the quarterback and several top offensive weapons battled through nagging injuries throughout the 2024 campaign.
LaFleur says that he’s seeing a new and improved version of Love this summer, as the 2025 season nears.
“Even from last year,” LaFleur told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “And I thought he took a big jump last year. Way more presence. As the kids say, he’s got aura.”
Love completed 63 percent of his passes last season for 3,389 yards with 25 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, but if the 26-year-old is fully healthy and makes the kind of strides LaFleur believes he’s capable of, those numbers could be the floor for the Packers’ star quarterback this fall.
“You can see the urgency he’s playing with right now,” LaFleur said. “A lot of times in this [era], you’re going to go as far as your quarterback goes. But it does take everybody around him playing at a high level.”
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