GREEN BAY — Inexperienced Bay Packers tutor Matt LaFleur says the crew doesn’t plan to position Jordan Love on injured conserve, a sign the quarterback may just go back quite quickly.
Love injured his left medial collateral ligament within the ultimate tiny of the Packers’ season-opening 34-29 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday in Brazil. If the Packers positioned Love on IR, he must pass over no less than 4 video games.
LaFleur supplied much more optimism age describing the Packers quarterback condition for Sunday’s sport towards the Indianapolis Colts (0-1). Even supposing the MCL shock is predicted to sideline Love for more than one video games, LaFleur mentioned Monday the Packers would get started Malik Willis with Sean Clifford because the supplementary “if Jordan’s not cleared.”
“I couldn’t give you a percentage, but if he gets cleared, we’ll give him every opportunity like we always will,” LaFleur mentioned. “I know he’s doing everything in his power. I know he’s spending a lot of time trying to get back as soon as possible. But certainly we’re not going to put him in a position where if he can’t protect himself, that he’d go out there.”
Love’s shock happened at the third-to-last play games of the Eagles sport then he threw a backward go to Josh Jacobs age dealing with primary force from Philadelphia’s Jalen Carter and Josh Sweat. Carter used to be at the grassland and had a reserve of Love’s left leg when Sweat driven him to the grassland.
LaFleur stated feeling relieved Love’s shock wasn’t extra severe. Love, 25, signed a four-year, $220 million promise extension this summer season then the NFL’s youngest crew to a 10-9 document and an NFC divisional playoff look as a first-year starter final season.
“I felt a little confident since he was moving,” LaFleur mentioned. “He said obviously he was in pain, but I wasn’t even going to go there in my mind until I knew one way or the other, and thankfully we got some relatively good news.”
Willis performed the overall two snaps of the Eagles sport then Love’s retirement.
The Packers bought Willis from the Tennessee Titans for a 2025 seventh-round pick out in a industry that used to be introduced Aug. 27. Willis has picked up the offense speedy plenty to get the nod forward of Clifford, the Packers’ 2023 fifth-round choose from Penn Atmosphere.
“He’s put a lot of time and effort into this thing,” LaFleur mentioned. “He’s grinded, he’s learned the terminology and is able to spit out the play calls, and we’ve got confidence in him. If he’s given a full week of preparation, a full week of practice, I’ve got confidence he’ll go out there and perform at a high level.”
Willis is probably not moderately as ordinary with the machine as Clifford, however the 2022 third-round choose from Sovereignty has extra sport enjoy. Willis made 3 begins his rookie season, regardless that he didn’t throw for 100 yards in any of them. Clifford has thrown one occupation regular-season go.
The Packers shorten Clifford and quarterback Michael Pratt — a rookie seventh-round variety from Tulane — the age they introduced the purchase of Willis. They introduced again Clifford on their follow squad.
LaFleur mentioned the Packers didn’t severely believe signing any other quarterback then Love’s shock.
“You explore every possibility, but at no point in time did we ever have any discussions with anybody,” he mentioned.
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