Jordan Love has all the time in the preseason to help improve his reputation as the successor of Aaron Rodgers for the Green Bay Packers. So far, so good. In the first half of the Packers' preseason game Saturday night against the Houston Texans, Love flexed his muscle in a performance that metaphorically tells “I got this” to Rodgers. Here's the kind of insane half Love just had:

It's really not a biggie because again, this is just a preseason game, but Love surely could use a performance like that to help his confidence and earn the trust of the Packers' decision-makers. Love would finish the half with 122 passing yards and a touchdown on 12-of-17 completions and a 110.4 passer rating.

Love has yet to see action in a regular-season setting, and that could still be the story for him this year. As long as Rodgers is healthy and committed to Green Bay, Love will just have to wait for his time. For now, he'll have to treat this preseason games like a movie in which he's in the lead role.

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The highlight of the game for Love was this 22-yard touchdown strike off a screen to running back Kylin Hill, which has Packers nation buzzing.

The Texans had one of the ugliest defenses in the NFL in the 2020 season, and Jordan Love made it look — at least in that play — that Houston's stop unit will continue to be poor in the coming 2021 campaign.

Up ahead for Love and the Packers is a showdown in Week 2 of the NFL preseason at Lambeau Field against Zach Wilson and the New York Jets.