Time to let Pookie be Pookie, Paul Klee writes. The path to a victory Sunday in Pittsburgh begins with no fewer than 20 carries for stud rookie running back Javonte
Pressure turned up on Packers, Jordan Love with Aaron Rodgers offseason absence Published: May 25, 2021 at 09:20 AM Jeffrey Phelps/Associated Press
As the Green Bay Packers organized team activities commenced on Monday, nobody found themselves caught in the middle of the rift between the club and its MVP quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, quite like Jordan Love. But the Packers 2020 first-round draft pick, selected to secure the future of the QB position for the franchise much as Rodgers was 15 years earlier, is trying to focus on more inward-looking concerns.
Like his left heel.
Among the flaws the Green Bay coaching staff noticed in Love s development as a rookie was that on the deep ball a Rodgers specialty the former Utah State quarterback tended to lift his left heel as he completed the throwing motion. Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and quarterbacks coach Luke Getsy believe Love can milk more accuracy from a better-anchored
Georgia cornerback Eric Stokes is one of the fastest players in the 2021 NFL draft.
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My take: Should it really be any surprise that the Packers went defense in the first round? This is the ninth time in their last 10 first-round picks they’ve addressed that side of the ball, with the lone offensive player being quarterback Jordan Love last year. Brian Gutekunst took a cornerback, Jaire Alexander, with his first pick as GM in 2018. Also, the last two times the Packers changed defensive coordinators, they gave him a first-round player or players. In 2009, Dom Capers got two first-rounders B.J. Raji and Clay Matthews. Mike Pettine got Alexander in 2018 and now Joe Barry gets Stokes. The pick says Pettine wasn’t the only problem with the Packers’ defense last year.
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By STEVE MEGARGEE - Associated Press - Friday, April 30, 2021
The Green Bay Packers passed up an opportunity to provide another weapon for disgruntled star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and instead boosted their secondary by using their first-round draft pick on Georgia cornerback Eric Stokes.
Stokes, a 6-foot-1 cornerback, went 29th overall Thursday night. He had a team-high four interceptions for Georgia last season and returned two of them for touchdowns.
“You basically get a person that’s hungrier than ever and is coming in to just do anything he can to help the team,” Stokes said. “It doesn’t matter what it is. I’m going to make sure that I learn, come in and do everything I can do and just keep improving as a player, because I know for a fact that I really want to help this team
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The Green Bay Packers selected Georgia cornerback Eric Stokes with the 29th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft on Thursday.
With that move, Green Bay has now added just one offensive player Utah State quarterback Jordan Love in 2020 in the first round of the NFL draft since 2012:
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The Packers have drafted 1 offensive player in the 1st round since 2012.
Jordan Love. https://t.co/1v9GxW68Rv
The other selections were linebacker Rashad Gary and safety Darnell Savage (2019), cornerback Jaire Alexander (2018), defensive tackle Kenny Clark (2016), safeties Damarious Randall (2015) and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (2014) and defensive ends Datone Jones (2013) and Nick Perry (2012).