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Jordan Love’s knee injury isn’t anything season-ending, but his reported MCL sprain is still enough to sideline him for three to six weeks, so the Packers would do well to add a quarterback to compete with backup Malik Willis for the starting job in Love’s absence.
Green Bay also has Sean Clifford, last year’s backup, on the practice squad, so it might be as simple as signing him to the 53 and rolling with those two. But Willis has only been with the Packers since Aug. 26 — less than two weeks — so he’ll have a cram session to learn the offense well enough to run it in Week 2 at home against the Colts.
The Packers gave up a seventh-round pick to get Willis, and it’s unlikely they’d give more draft capital for what should be short-term help until Love is healthy again. But there are quarterbacks out there — either unsigned or on other teams’ practice squads — that can be signed at no cost and upgrade the quarterback room for now.
Willis is 25, but he’s only thrown 67 passes in his NFL career — three interceptions, no touchdowns — so a playoff-caliber team might want a more experienced quarterback to try to give them the best chance of winning until Love is back. Here are some options:
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Tannehill is easily the most experienced of the available options, opting not to sign anywhere as a free agent after he was done with the Titans. His 2023 wasn’t good — four touchdowns against seven interceptions in eight starts before he lost the job to then-rookie Will Levis. But he’s only two years removed from having a 94.6 quarterback rating for the 2022 season, so it’d just be a matter of getting him in and, like Willis, teaching him a new offense in a hurry.
Green Bay has ample cap space to bring him in — it would be like the Browns last year with Joe Flacco, who came in off the couch and went 4-1 as a fill-in starter, throwing 13 touchdowns in five games. If Green Bay…
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