Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers are currently in the midst of what figures to be a highly important offseason for the future direction of the franchise following what has to be categorized as a wildly successful 2023-24 NFL season. The Packers destroyed the Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card round of the NFC playoffs before losing a tightly contested game to the eventual NFC champion San Francisco 49ers in round two, and Love looked the part of a future superstar in his first full year starting for the Packers following the trade of Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets.

One important question following Love's production this year is what kind of money he will command when he is due for an inevitable extension with the franchise, and one person who believes that Love could take home a market-altering salary is none other than former sports agent Joel Corry of CBS Sports.

“Based on the precedent set with a young (Aaron) Rodgers, the Packers should at least be willing to make Love the NFL's fourth- or fifth-highest paid player. At a minimum, Love should be in the $48.5 million-to-$49 million-per-year neighborhood by approximating the midpoint of the league's fourth- and fifth-highest paid player,” opined Corryy, per cbssports.com.

Corry also referenced the final lucrative contract that Rodgers signed as a member of the Packers.

“Rodgers became the NFL's first $50 million-per-year player with a contract widely considered to be $150.815 million over three years although there were two additional below-market years (2025 and 2026) in the deal,” reported Corry. “He established new benchmarks for guaranteed money in football contracts with $150.665 million in total guarantees and $101.515 million fully guaranteed at signing. Both of these marks have been surpassed by numerous quarterbacks in subsequent signings. It wouldn't be surprising for Love's camp to not only target more than this deal, but to insist on their client becoming the league's highest-paid player, like Rodgers. The Packers will surely push back on this idea noting that Rodgers was coming off back-to-back NFL MVP seasons when he received the deal. Love's case could be bolstered because as a first-year starter he outperformed Rodgers during his last season in Green Bay.”

A resurgent year in Green Bay

The Packers were not expected to make a whole lot of noise in the 2023-24 season and in fact, they didn't even officially secure their spot in the postseason until they knocked off the Chicago Bears in the final game of the regular year.

However, Love raised eyebrows around the league by eviscerating a Cowboys' defensive unit that had been among the best in recent NFL history throughout the campaign, consistently fitting passes through tight windows and showing off the mobility and athleticism that give his game another dimension.

With free agency and the NFL Draft now behind them, the Packers will now turn their attention to trying to get Jordan Love as many repetitions as possible this offseason so that Green Bay can pick up where it left off when things get underway in September.