Jordan Love’s ability to lead the NFL’s youngest team to the divisional playoffs in his first year as a starter has the Green Bay Packers eager to work out a long-term extension with him.
After the Packers traded four-time MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets, Love agreed to terms on a one-year extension that made his deal run through 2024. Love becomes eligible for another extension in May.
“I think we will go down that road,” Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said Thursday in his season-ending news conference. “Certainly I think that will be important for our football team to have some stability there. Jordan and his representation, they’re really good people, so we will start working toward that sometime in the next couple months.”
Gutekunst also said he anticipates having 29-year-old running back Aaron Jones back next season. Jones had restructured his contract a year ago and had taken a pay cut for the 2023 season to remain with the Packers.
“He’s such an influential leader in our locker room,” Gutekunst said. “He’s just really the heartbeat of our team. That’s certainly the anticipation, that he’ll be back.”
Love and Jones led the Packers on a surprising playoff run with their late-season surges.
Jones rushed for at least 100 yards in each of Green Bay’s last five games.
Love threw 21 touchdown passes with only one interception during a nine-game stretch that culminated with a 48-32 wild-card upset of the Dallas Cowboys, though he was picked off twice when the Packers lost 24-21 to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round.
“We are really excited to build around him,” Gutekunst said.
Gutekunst also said he hadn’t given any consideration to trading cornerback Jaire Alexander, who served a one-game suspension late in the season for conduct detrimental to the team.
Gutekunst was more circumspect regarding the future of left tackle David Bakhtiari, who played just one game this season because of a knee issue that has…
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