QB Kurt Benkert Signs Packers Contract After Bortles Deal amid Aaron Rodgers Rumors
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There is quarterback news in Inexperienced Bay. And no, it is a ways never about Aaron Rodgers.
The Packers signed Kurt Benkert after having him in for a rookie minicamp this weekend, per Retract Demovsky of ESPN. It be the 2nd quarterback the Packers have added internal the past week after furthermore signing outdated school Blake Bortles.
Benkert posted his contract signing on Twitter:
Benkert, 25, spent the 2018 and 2020 seasons on the prepare squad for the Atlanta Falcons after being an undrafted free agent in 2018. He used to be on injured reserve with a toe break in 2018.
And so the Packers will have Bortles and Benkert joining Jordan Savor come practising camp. The jury is restful out on whether or no longer Rodgers will be joining them, with experiences continuing to snarl that the 2020 MVP desires out and the Packers consistently asserting publicly they haven’t got any plans to grant that wish.
“I’ve received nothing unique to change, and we restful clearly feel the identical draw,” Packers coach told journalists on Friday concerning the stand-off with Rodgers. “We opt him serve in the worst draw. I do know he knows that, and we will proceed to work at it every and each day.”
As for Savor, LaFleur sidestepped a quiz about whether or no longer he would prepare the younger quarterback to be the team’s starter with Rodgers’ future in Inexperienced Bay up in the air.
“I’m no longer going to affect any assumptions about the leisure at this level,” he said. “We’re lawful going to rep it on each day basis, nonetheless every player on our roster has received to have the mentality that they’ll be the actual person. If no longer, while you create gain your opportunity, you is maybe no longer sharp for it. So as that’s consistently what we stress to every player on this soccer team.”