Rookie tight ends generally don’t have a great deal of success in this league, as even Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski needed a season before exploding to superstardom.
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For Rodgers, this is all part of the plan. In the first week of camp, Rodgers threw five interceptions – the same number he threw all of last season.
This all goes to show why it’s training camp gobbledygook when you see writers and outlets heaping praise on Marcus Mariota and Geno Smith for avoiding picks.
■ Though he is likely to start the season at inside linebacker, Clay Matthews is still an outside pass rusher at heart.
The touchdown catch was easy, but the two plays suggest the Packers want to go to Richard Rodgers when the field and throwing windows shrink in the red zone. “How certain they are about that will dictate how high they need to address the position in the draft”.
“They’re timing it just ideal, ” Hayward said.
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Is Rodgers a 50-catch guy? Those numbers may not look huge, but he put them up as the backup tight end behind Andrew Quarless. Veteran Jordy Nelson can haul in those passes with relative ease. How is his handling of a new offense?
Quarless is coming off of a rough offseason himself, in which he struggled with off-the-field issues. There is still a chance that he could end up being the starter by the beginning of the season, but it certainly appears that the Packers are giving Rodgers every opportunity to win the job.
The Packers might be hitting the books again the next few days after coach Mike McCarthy thought his team took a step backward at practice on Thursday after two good days earlier in the week.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, left, talks with offensive coordinator Edgar Bennett during NFL football training camp, Saturday, August 1, 2015, in Green Bay, Wis. There’s different guys out there running routes who might not be in there when it is the actual game time. Not only did he make the catch, but the wideout also had no trouble getting his feet down in bounds. It’s better to have a Rodgers and if he has a down week, maybe a big game from a receiver on a different team can salvage the output.
While the fireworks and laser light show are fun, perhaps the biggest upside of the event is the way it inoculates young players in advance of preseason and regular-season games.
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With the help of Luke Stanke, a Green Bay native and PhD student at the University of Minnesota who also works as a data scientist for the Minneapolis Public Schools who we introduced you to in the summer of 2013, we’ve taken the results of each rep in the drill – as scored by yours truly from the sideline – and created an overall ranking (or RPI) of every player in the drill.
