After defying the percentages and making the NFL playoffs within the first season of the post-Aaron Rodgers period, the Inexperienced Bay Packers look like a workforce on the rise within the league as soon as once more, with a gifted younger quarterback main the way in which in Jordan Love.
Though the Packers have solely gotten a small pattern dimension of Love beginning at quarterback for this workforce, Inexperienced Bay felt assured sufficient in his potential to be a celebrity within the NFL that they signed him to an enormous contract extension just lately, paving the way in which for a brilliant future in Wisconsin.
With Love a rising star, the Packers will possible be a power to be reckoned with as soon as once more throughout the 2024 NFL season, particularly with a giant addition like star working again Josh Jacobs popping out of the backfield.
Nevertheless, although Love would be the starter for the foreseeable future, Inexperienced Bay will want some first rate choices behind him to offer insurance coverage within the occasion an unlucky damage happens to the brand new face of the franchise.
Sadly for former fourth-round decide Jacob Eason, he gained’t be a participant the workforce will lean on to again up Love transferring ahead, as he was launched on Monday, based on Jason B. Hirschhorn of The Leap.
The #Packers have launched QB Jacob Eason. They didn’t make a corresponding transfer, leaving the roster with an open spot.
— Jason B. Hirschhorn (@by_JBH) August 5, 2024
Regardless of being an intriguing prospect popping out of the 2020 NFL Draft, Eason merely hasn’t been in a position to make it on the NFL stage, as he’s already performed for seven groups within the league.
With the workforce transferring on from Eason, the workforce will flip to Sean Clifford and Michael Pratt on the depth chart to be backups for Love.