The 2023 Green Bay Packers entered this season with a lack of clarity regarding their future in the first year without Aaron Rodgers .
Following a run to the NFC divisional round after becoming the NFL’s youngest team to win a playoff game (average age: 25 years, 214 days) since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, the Packers enter 2024 with a clear path forward in the eyes of general manager Brian Gutekunst: build around 25-year-old quarterback Jordan Love , the team’s first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft .
“Jordan had a really good season toward the end, especially the second half and we are really excited to build around him,” Gutekunst said at his end of season press conference on Thursday . “I think just the way he led our football team through the tough times, through the success, all the challenges that a season kind of brings you, he did a really good job leading those guys. I think for a young player in his first year that’s trying to figure it all out, I think that was exceptional.”