Romeo Doubs seems very confident in the Green Bay Packers quarterback change from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love. On Friday, the second-year widened told SpectrumNews1.com’s Dennis Krause that he didn’t “really see what the big difference was” between Love being under center since Rodgers was in 2022.
“I think Jordan can do it,” Doubs said. “I think Jordan is a really good quarterback. When you go from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan, Aaron was a really good quarterback, but I think Jordan can do the exact same thing.”
Those are bold words from Doubs for a player in love stepping into a role vacated by a four-time Super Bowl-winning MVP at Rodgers. Along with a championship and four of the NFL’s highest awards, Rodgers also won 10 Pro Bowls, passed for nearly 60,000 yards, passed 475 touchdowns and completed 65.3% of his passing attempts in 15 seasons as a than going full time.
This is a difficult bar for any quarterback to cross. let alone one has attempted just 83 passes for 606 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions in 10 games. Love, who the Packers traded to select in the first round of the 2020 draft, has waited behind Rodgers for the past three seasons, so maybe he picked up a few things. Either way, he will now be QB1 after Rodgers’ unceremonious divorce from the Packers settled with him as the starting quarterback for the New York Jets.
Of Love’s 21 passing attempts in 2022, he and Doubs have connected on just two passes for nine yards. Doubs himself finished his rookie year with 42 receptions for 425 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games — numbers that ranked fourth on the team last season.
Now, however, Doubs will be one of, if not the top, receiving targets for Love after Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb joined Rodgers in New York and tight end Robert Tonyan signed with the Chicago Bears. The only receivers to return to Green Bay are second-rounder Christian Watson in 2022 and seventh-rounder Samori Toure in 2022.
This leaves the Doubs as one of the de facto attacking leaders as well.
“I’d be lying if I said I shouldn’t be [a leader in 2023]. And I know looking on the outside, everyone expects me to be that leader,” Doubs said. “I’m just working to be a complete receiver. I just make sure my hands are good, my exit game is good, and my routes are good. Just making sure we maintain that high standard for the guys who look up to us.”
The Packers are also trying to complete another successful succession plan with Rodgers’ move to Love, after doing the same with Brett Favre and Rodgers in 2008. This one worked out well for Green Bay, but lightning rarely strikes twice. .
Doubs seems to think so.