
Rodgers’ future in Green Bay is uncertain, so the Love-to-Watson touchdown on Sunday night could be a look into the future for the Packers. Love was the Packers’ first-round pick in 2020. Love came up off the play-action, fired into the middle of the field and let Watson do the rest.


His speed is killing defenses.Ī beautiful play. He has six touchdowns in his last three games. He competed in a quarterback battle with recently drafted Russell Wilson. Three completions, 75 yards, one touchdown and a perfect 158.3 passer rating. After the completion of the 2011 season, Matt Flynn signed with the Seattle Seahawks. On his first series, Love hit Allen Lazard for a 7-yard completion to convert on 3rd-and-5 and then fired a completion off play-action to Watson cutting across the field, and the speedy rookie to it to the house for a game-changing score. Rodgers left the contest with an oblique injury. The legend of Tim Boyle will gain another chapter on Sunday in Cleveland.
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The Seahawks were in search of a starting quarterback because Holmgren let his starting quarterback of the past two seasons, Jon Kitna, go as a free agent.Four plays after taking over for Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Jordan Love hit rookie Christian Watson for a 63-yard touchdown pass that cut the Philadelphia Eagles’ lead to 37-30 in the fourth quarter. Favre has started an NFL record 141 consecutive regular season games. In his three years in Green Bay, including his rookie season on the practice squad, Hasselbeck saw limited action because of Favre's durability. Hasselbeck, 25, was drafted in the sixth round in 1998 out of Boston College. "The only reason I'm going anywhere is to be the starter." "If I was going to be a backup anywhere, I would have stayed in Green Bay," he said. "This team's given up a lot to acquire me, and I've got a lot of responsibility not to let them down," Hasselbeck said. Hasselbeck, speaking by telephone, said he hoped to help turn around the Seahawks' fortunes. On his first series, Love hit Allen Lazard for a 7-yard completion to. Rodgers left the contest with an oblique injury. "For a lot of reasons, this was the right move to make." Four plays after taking over for Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Jordan Love hit rookie Christian Watson for a 63-yard touchdown pass that cut the Philadelphia Eagles’ lead to 37-30 in the fourth quarter. "Signing Matt sets the table for me just a little bit," Holmgren said. The Green Bay Packers have been advised to add seasoned backup QB Teddy Bridgewater behind Jordan Love but, as always, it is vital to consider the source. The Seahawks also were interested in free agent quarterback Elvis Grbac, who was released by Kansas City. "I'm planning on him to come in and be our starter." "If it didn't happen early in the trade process, we were prepared to go in another direction.

As of Monday, two days before the start of Packers. Once official, adding a veteran backup quarterback to the roster will become another item on Brian Gutekunst’s offseason to-do list. Getty Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Alex McGough will compete for a Green Bay Packers roster spot during 2023 training camp. "He was right at the top of our list," Holmgren said of Hasselbeck, whom he drafted in 1998 when he was coach of the Packers. Aaron Rodgers has declared that he’s ready to join the New York Jets, although we don’t know when a trade between the Jets and the Green Bay Packers is expected to take place. The Seahawks also will draft seventh in the first round of the April 21-22 NFL draft. Seattle gave up its 10th selection for Green Bay's 17th pick. Wilson averaged a career-low 15.1 fantasy PPG and had one weekly outing. The Seahawks exchanged first-round draft choices with the Packers for Hasselbeck and sent their third-round pick to Green Bay. The veteran QB missed two games due to injury and managed only 19 TDs in 15 games while taking a league-high 55 sacks. The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Hasselbeck was Brett Favre's backup the past two seasons and has thrown only 29 passes in NFL regular-season games.īut Holmgren, also Seattle's general manager, apparently likes his potential. Hasselbeck will become Seattle's starting quarterback next season, Holmgren said.

SEATTLE (AP) - Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren was reunited with Matt Hasselbeck when Seattle acquired the former Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Friday. The Falcons finished 7-10 for the second straight season. THE NFL: Seahawks trade picks for Packers' Hasselbeck Colt McCoy, Trace McSorley and David Blough combined to start the other six games in a nightmarish 4-13 season.
