And now we can wrap things up on the NFL draft …
• It’s fifth-year-option time again, with the deadline for teams to pull the trigger on those with 2020 first-round picks at 4 p.m. ET today. As of this morning, 12 of the 32 options had been picked up.
The big decision coming into the day was the call the Packers had to make on Jordan Love. They’ve since answered the question they were facing there creatively. They negotiated a one-year extension that maxes out at $22.5 million in new money—which tops the $20.27 million Green Bay would’ve given Love by picking up the option. He gets $13.5 million fully guaranteed as part of the deal, so, in all likelihood, getting the full freight will mean he’ll have to play well enough to be the Packers’ starter again in 2024.
