Packers Make Final Call on QB Jordan Love’s Contract
Jordan Love is the Green Bay Packers next franchise quarterback, and he’s about to get paid like it.
The Packers and Love have yet to hash out the exact number, but Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reported on Super Bowl Sunday that the Packers plan to ink Love to a long-term deal in or around June 2024 that represents “fair-market” value for a starting NFL quarterback.The Packers did a Band-Aid deal for Love prior to the 2023 season — a one-year, $22.5 million extension through 2024 that got him a raise in 2023 before Green Bay would’ve had to pick up Love’s fifth-year option. Because that deal was done in May, it likely won’t be until this coming May that his contract is touched again.
The Packers are expected to be willing to discuss a new, fair-market deal for Love that pays him like a true starter. QB deals often happen in June or before the start of training camp, and that timeline makes sense. Still just 25 years old, Love is now in line for the first big-time payday of his career.
Spotrac predicts Love’s market value at $44.8 million annually ($179.4 million total) over a new four-year deal.
Jordan Love Honors History of QB Play in Green Bay as He Leads Packers Into Future
The enormity of what it means to be the next in line to follow Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers — the two MVP and Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks who directly preceded him — is not lost on Love.
Love spoke about what it means to assume that mantle, which it now appears he will hold for several seasons to come, during a radio hit on “The Jim Rome Show” during Super Bowl week in Las Vegas.
“Man, it is very special to be quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. It’s the legacy that came before me, all the great quarterbacks that have been there with Aaron, Brett,” Love said, per Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated.
