{"id":1972,"date":"2024-10-28T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:58:26","slug":"breaking-packers-trade-pitch-nets-ex-bears-qb-after-jordan-love-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Field-Trade-Pack-e1730071824488.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Field-Trade-Pack-e1730071824488.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Field-Trade-Pack-e1730071824488.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Field-Trade-Pack-e1730071824488.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heavy on Packers Pittsburgh Steelers QB Justin Fields could be a trade target for the Green Bay Packers after a groin injury to Jordan Love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers have already successfully navigated one meaningful injury to QB Jordan Love this season, and now they\u2019re staring down the barrel of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay eked out a victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, October 27, despite losing Love in the third quarter to what the team reported following the contest was a groin strain. Backup quarterback Malik Willis was solid in relief of Love, completing 4-of-5 passes for 56 yards and 1 TD.<\/p>\n<p>Willis has largely been successful in his role as Love\u2019s stand-in this season, posting a record of 2-0 as the starter and helping the Packers secure a three-point win over the Jags in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>However, the run-heavy formula on offense and the reliance on the defense to force turnovers that worked for Green Bay against the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans in Weeks 2 and 3, when Love was down with a knee injury, will be more difficult to execute against the likes of the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers \u2014 two of the next three opponents on the Packers\u2019 schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The talent of the competition and the uncertainty around Love\u2019s health beg the question of whether Green Bay should explore the addition of another QB alongside Willis and third-string signal caller Sean Clifford should Love miss multiple games as he rehabs his injury.<\/p>\n<p>One option for the Packers could be Justin Fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers, whose team demoted him in favor of Russell Wilson last week despite leading them to a 4-2 record while accounting for 10 total TDs and just 1 INT across those six contests.<\/p>\n<p>Fields landed with the Steelers via a trade this offseason with the Chicago Bears and is in the final year of his rookie contract.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Packers Have Reason for Concern, Optimism in Wake of Jordan Love\u2019s Groin Injury<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5151920\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2173750762-e1727046177862.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury\" width=\"782\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5151920\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5151920\">GettyQuarterback Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Head coach Matt LaFleur cited a \u201chigh level of concern\u201d over Love\u2019s injury during his postgame press conference, noting that the QB had trouble moving effectively and that the team and quarterback both eventually succumbed to concerns that Love couldn\u2019t \u201cprotect himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom Pelissero of NFL Network put a rosier spin on the issue a bit later in the evening, reporting some optimism coming out of the Green Bay organization.<\/p>\n<div id=\"b71d2f55e4b7c2fb514c5f1b0396143b\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>#Packers QB Jordan Love will undergo tests Monday, but there\u2019s optimism he avoided a long-term injury today, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Love kept playing after tweaking his groin but eventually had to come out. Status TBD for next Sunday\u2019s showdown against the #Lions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c#Packers QB Jordan Love will undergo tests Monday, but there\u2019s optimism he avoided a long-term injury today, per sources,\u201d Pelissero wrote. \u201cLove kept playing after tweaking his groin but eventually had to come out. Status TBD for next Sunday\u2019s showdown against the [Detroit] Lions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another point of optimism for Green Bay comes in the form of its bye week, which falls in Week 10 following the game against Detroit and one week before the team travels to Soldier Field to take on the Bears.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Trading for Justin Fields Can Offer Packers Safety Net Against Struggles, Injury for Malik Willis<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5182000\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Justin-Fields16-e1729884232241.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5182000\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5182000\">GettyPittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That said, Love could be looking at anywhere from 2-6 weeks out if he suffered a Grade 1 or Grade 2 groin strain. A Grade 3 strain, which doesn\u2019t appear likely now given Pelissero\u2019s report, could have meant the QB would miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fields would be among the highest-end safety plays the Packers could make in case Willis struggles against a better class of opponents and\/or suffers an injury himself. The team averaged well over 200 yards rushing against the Colts and Titans with Willis under center, but that kind of production is unlikely against opponents like Detroit and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>And while Willis was also solid in Jacksonville Sunday, 51 of his 56 passing yards came on a single completion to wide receiver Jayden Reed.<\/p>\n<p>If Green Bay doesn\u2019t believe Love will be ready to go in Chicago on November 17, the Packers will be playing with a bit of fire by not adding another QB to the roster to both maintain depth and familiarize another signal caller with the offense.<\/p>\n<p>Fields would probably cost the team a late Day 2 or early Day 3 draft asset in 2025, while the Packers could instead sign a less qualified quarterback off of the mid-season free agency scrap heap. Either way, though, adding another QB is better than nothing and could be an avenue the Packers pursue as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>Max Dible covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group&#8217;s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy. More about Max Dible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers may not need to add a QB following Jordan Love&#8217;s injury, but if they do a trade for Justin Fields could be the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=1972\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Packers Trade Pitch Nets Ex-Bears QB After Jordan Love Injury - 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