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As the initial shock of the Green Bay Packers selecting a quarterback in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft has passe off, the controversy of Jordan Delight in taking on the offense from Aaron Rodgers has additionally calmed down.
The No. 26 total decide acknowledged he’s now not fascinated by the club’s lengthy-term plans on the place, both.
“I suggest I have not appeared too great into it,” Delight in told John Doran of Fox 11. “Clearly, I hear my associates discuss it on a on daily basis basis and all that, but I create now not sight into it. It’s a long way what it is.”
Excluding now not being ready to meet and practice with his teammates on sage of the pandemic, Delight in has been spending his offseason the device in which most newcomers attain: discovering out the playbook as great as he can, lifting weights and attending digital conferences.
To this point, that route of appears to be like to be connecting with the Utah Tell product.
“I positively in actuality feel fancy I’m a correct fit for the offense,” Delight in acknowledged. “Staunch seeing the performs they escape, the actions and whatnot. I have faith or now not it is a extraordinarily correct fit for me.”
These digital conferences are vivid in regards to the handiest time Delight in has talked with Rodgers. The 2 like yet to meet face to face, though Rodgers did reach out in April to congratulate Delight in on changing into a first-rounder.
Rodgers, 36, is peaceable beneath contract in Green Bay via the 2023 season on account of a four-one year, $134 million extension he signed in 2018. That deal will witness him execute $21.6 million this season, $22.0 million in 2021 and then soar to $25.5 million in the closing two years.
It took three years after Rodgers changed into as soon as drafted with the No. 24 total decide in 2005 sooner than he made his first start. Green Bay endured to give Brett Favre each opportunity to play till it might per chance per chance probably presumably now not instruct Rodgers the job, permitting him to appear in vivid seven video games and attempt 35 passes in his first three seasons.
It’s unclear if Delight in will doubtless be discipline to the same grooming length. He doesn’t appear like attempting to hotfoot that route of—a minimal of publicly.
“In fact nothing changed after the draft,” Delight in acknowledged. “I changed into as soon as peaceable at home, vivid a uncommon feeling. Then I acquired the playbook, so or now not it is vivid been conferences and whatnot with the staff. That’s handsome great been it, that and practicing.”
