Josh Jacobs interview: Already a leader in the Packers locker room

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz sits down with new Packers RB Josh Jacobs to chat about why he’s already a leader in the Packers locker room, even though he’s the “new guy” and what he’s seen from QB Jordan Love so far at minicamp. Josh joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of USAA’s “Huddle Up for Home Fire Prevention & Safety.”

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Jason Fitz with Yahoo Sports, hanging out with NFL superstar Josh Jacobs Green Bay Packers, he’s joining us on behalf of USA A.

We’ll get to that in a minute.

All right.

One of those guys that you’ve seen up close to everybody’s talking about Jordan love.

You’ve seen him.

What are your first impressions, man?

Oh man, I mean, all, all day, I’ve been getting questions about him and, and I, you know, I try to talk him up as much as I can.

Um I think he’s legit gonna be the next, you know, superstar quarterback in this league.

Um I like the way that he just goes about his business on a day to day, whether it’s in the locker room or in the huddle how he demands that respect and, you know, he comes in as a, as a leader.

Um And you know, he, he’s willing to carry that, that, you know, that captain on, on his chest and he carry the team on his chest.

With that being said, he also has all the ability to really be something special.

I seen him make a throw at practice where he was running to the right and he threw it about 50 yards across his body all the way back to the left side of the field.

And it just kind of look effortless.

And I was like, yeah, that’s what I kinda do.

I was like, yeah, this dude, I just thought it was gonna be good.

That’s amazing.

But it makes me think about leadership.

You just talked about it.

You’re new to this locker room or you’re not new to the league, you’re kind of the senior guy coming into this skill position group.

Like, so how do you find your spot as a leader amongst this when you’re the new guy on the team?

Uh They didn’t make it hard at all.

Yeah, they didn’t make it hard at all.

I mean, when I, when I came…


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