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Welcome to your Morning Buzz, rounding up news and views regarding the Green Bay Packers from around the web and here at PackersNews.com.

We’ll start with former sports agent Joel Corry of CBS Sports examining when it might make the most sense for the Packers to go with Jordan Love and trade Aaron Rodgers, based on both players’ contract structures.

Corry writes:

A trade in 2022 seems more likely than in 2021. The Packers would pick up $22.648 million cap room by removing Rodgers’ $39.852 million cap number in 2022 from the equation. There would be $17.204 million of dead money in 2022 from Rodgers’ departure. Just like with a trade in 2021, Rodgers’ $28.352 million cap number in 2023 would come off Green Bay’s books.

The Packers would have a new starting quarterback in Love with $1,735,770 and $2,298,655 salaries in 2022 and 2023, with $3,377,310 and $3,940,195 cap numbers respectively in those years.

The Packers would probably have less time to determine whether Love is the long-term successor to Rodgers with a 2022 trade. Waiting would limit the amount of Love’s fifth-year option in 2024. There wouldn’t be a way for him to elevate the option year to the 2023 quarterback franchise tag as a first-year starter. Getting his option-year salary to the 2023 transition tag would require Love instantly becoming one of the NFC’s best quarterbacks to earn a Pro Bowl berth. The most likely scenario would be Love’s option-year salary being at the lowest level because it would be hard for him to average 50 percent playtime over his first three years even he took all of Green Bay’s quarterback snaps in 2022 unless Rodgers missed significant time with an injury during his first two years.

You can read the entire story here:

SI.com’s Albert Breer ranks five rookie quarterbacks based on their projected 2020 playing time. Naturally, Love ranked fifth.

Breer writes:

5) Jordan Love, Packers. I honestly thought of putting Jacob Eason in this spot, in the case where he starts for the Colts in a game without much meaning (either because they’ve locked up their spot in the playoffs, or they fall out of the race). But then I thought about it, and remembered the Packers got a bye last year, and very well could be in that sort of situation in Week 17 themselves. Either way, I believe this will be a true redshirt year for Love.

You can find Breer’s entire column here:

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