All eyes are on Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love this season, with the 25-year-old in line for a new deal and the franchise aiming for its second playoff berth in the post- Aaron Rodgers era.
Some are even referring to Love as the NFL 's "next great quarterback," and former Super Bowl champion wideout Plaxico Burress explained why on a recent edition of " The Carton Show ."
"This young man is on a trajectory to be the next great quarterback in this league, and I say that because when I watch him throw the football and I watch him read defenses and I watch how fast the ball comes out of his hand — he knows what's going on," Burress said. "He had the opportunity to sit behind Aaron Rodgers for those four or five years, and this man is in prime-time mode for the next decade.
"I'm telling you, he is going to take off."
Love finished the regular season with 4,159 passing yards (seventh-most in the NFL) and 32 touchdowns (second-most), while completing 64.2% of his passes. Green Bay's (10-9) postseason ended in a divisional-round loss to San Francisco .
Skip Bayless agreed with Burress and revealed that he'll be purchasing Love's No. 10 jersey ahead of the 2024 season.
"There's just something about Jordan Love that I love," Bayless said. "He's going to be the next great quarterback because he went on a roll late last season. They (the Packers) went 6-2. … Over that span, Jordan Love threw 18 touchdowns to two interceptions.
"Jordan Love is it."
Love signed a two-year contract with Green Bay last offseason that gave him a raise and bought out his fifth-year option.
It's widely speculated that Love will soon become the highest-paid QB in the league after Jacksonville 's Trevor Lawrence received a five-year, $275 million extension — with $200 million guaranteed and $142 million paid at signing — in June, giving him an average annual salary of roughly $55 million. Similarly, Detroit 's Jared Goff inked a four-year, $212 million extension with $170 million guaranteed in May. That said, it's likely that Love will receive a similar — if not better — deal in the near future, which would effectively make him the league's highest-paid player.
Both the Packers and Love have said that they want to get a deal done before the start of training camp, but there reportedly "hasn't been a lot of production as far as getting close to a deal." Still, there's no indication that Love intends to hold out from camp in the meantime while the two sides continue negotiating.
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