{"id":857661,"date":"2026-04-06T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:29:22","slug":"packers-predicted-to-sign-former-242-million-pro-bowl-quarterback-to-back-up-jordan-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857661\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers predicted to sign former $242 million Pro Bowl quarterback to back up Jordan Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> don&#8217;t have a reliable No. 2 quarterback on the roster currently to back up Jordan Love.<\/p>\n<p>With Malik Willis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48154190\/miami-dolphins-sign-malik-willis-free-agency-contract-green-bay-packers-faq-questions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">departing in free agency for the Miami Dolphins<\/a>, the Packers will have a new backup signal-caller in 2026. As of right now, Desmond Ridder or Kyle McCord is set to handle those duties, and head coach Matt LaFleur can&#8217;t be comfortable with either as the backup.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nfl\/nfl-qb-landing-spot-predictions-after-cousins-signing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sportsnaut&#8217;s Andrew Buller-Russ<\/a> predicts Green Bay will sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> free agent quarterback Russell Wilson to serve as the QB2 behind Love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russell Wilson showed he still has plenty of juice in his arm last season in New York,&#8221; Buller-Russ said. &#8220;Landing as the QB2 on a contender in Green Bay feels like a win for the 37-year-old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson started just three games in 2025 with the Giants before being benched for Jaxson Dart, tossing three touchdowns to three interceptions with a 58% completion rate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Wilson can no longer be a high-level or even above-average starting quarterback, but the 37-year-old can still serve as an elite backup.<\/p>\n<p>Signing Wilson to be the No. 2 quarterback behind Love would be a savvy move by Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst. The 10-time Pro Bowler would provide viable play if thrust into action, and even if he doesn&#8217;t see the field, Wilson&#8217;s experience would be a valuable addition to Green Bay&#8217;s quarterback room.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Super Bowl XLVIII champion should be incredibly cheap to sign, so this feels like a no-brainer move for the Packers to make in order to address a major need on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers don&#8217;t have a reliable No. 2 quarterback on the roster currently to back up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-857661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-greenbay","12":"tag-greenbaypackers","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116360129056770783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}