Chicago Bears: Jordan Love to Packers mean fallout with Rodgers?

The Chicago Bears saw their biggest rival make a splash in the 2020 NFL Draft. Does that mean there is trouble in paradise?

The Chicago Bears finished the 2020 NFL Draft on Sunday along with the rest of the National Football League. Their bitter rivals, the Green Bay Packers, had themselves a very interesting draft. They, by far, had the worst draft of any team in the NFC North Division. They are still going to be a respectable football team in 2020 but this draft definitely raised some questions about their future plans.

They started it off by selecting quarterback Jordan Love from Utah State University. The problem with that pick is that they have Aaron Rodgers there who had yet another elite year in 2019. He went 13-3 with Green Bay before making a run all the way to the NFC Championship. He threw 26 touchdowns to only four interceptions and completed 62 percent of his passes.

In all 15 years of Rodgers’ career, the Packers didn’t draft a single skill position player in the first round.  Rodgers made it known that he is aware too that fact earlier in the day on Thursday. Well, instead of fulfilling Rodgers’ request, they went out and drafted his potential replacement.

A lot of people are comparing this move to when the Packers drafted Rodgers with the 24th overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft. They still had Brett Favre at the same age as Rodgers is at now. There two key differences to this situation. The first is that Rodgers was a much higher touted college prospect than Love. The second is that Favre made retirement comments many times. Rodgers shows no signs of wanting to be done playing football.

That has some people thinking if this will cause a fallout between Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers organization. He has been known to have an attitude at times but it is extra hard to imagine that he is happy about this pick. It clearly isn’t something that is going to affect him in the short term but they now have a potential plan for life after Aaron Rodgers.

You can also argue that it does affect him because Love is going to be holding a clipboard for at a minimum, three years. Instead, they could have drafted one of the great wide receivers this draft had to offer. It was an all-time great draft in terms of depth at that position and the Packers didn’t take a single one. That has to frustrate number 12.

It might take a while for us to see the results of this draft pick but it is only fair to wonder if this will have a negative impact on their organization. If it does, that is awesome news for the Chicago Bears. They have been the better team for a long time and all we want to see is the tides turn at some point.