{"id":40216,"date":"2025-12-21T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=40216"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:04:17","slug":"packers-offer-telling-update-on-jordan-love-after-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=40216","title":{"rendered":"Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252907593-e1766356897540.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252907593-e1766356897540.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252907593-e1766356897540.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252907593-e1766356897540.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers saw both of their top two quarterbacks sustain injuries against the Chicago Bears in a crushing loss on Saturday night, December 21, but the news wasn\u2019t as bad as it could have been one day later.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Matt LaFleur spoke with media members on Sunday about Love\u2019s progression\u00a0 through the concussion protocol and the chances that he might return for the team\u2019s game against the Baltimore Ravens on December 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a process that takes multiple days to get through. I would say yeah, you might have an educated guess [as to whether a player can return], but that\u2019s always a tough one to navigate. There\u2019s a lot of steps to getting through that,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cI do think, just my conversations with people \u2014 I have not specifically talked to [Love] today \u2014 but it sounded like he was doing better.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Austin Booker Could Face Punishment From NFL for Illegal Hit on Jordan Love<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5667983\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2252908021-e1766286830243.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5667983\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5667983\">GettyChicago Bears defensive end hits and injures quarterback Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers during an NFL game in December 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A reporter asked a follow-up about the nature of the hit that injured Love in the second quarter, which Bears defensive end Austin Booker leveled and for which the referees threw a flag for the penalty of roughing the passer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you think of the hit?\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you think of the hit?\u201d LaFleur responded after a brief pause, with a slight smile on his face.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter said he thought it was a helmet-to-helmet blow that Love may have made inadvertently worse by trying to duck the sack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think it was a hit \u2014 a hit to the head,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cI think they called it the right way, and it\u2019s an unfortunate part of our game. Sometimes it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Booker could potentially face a fine for the play, though the NFL won\u2019t announce any penalty until next Saturday, when the Office of Gameday Accountability releases fines\/punishment information for on-play activities from the previous week.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Malik Willis Battling Shoulder Injury After Bears Game<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5261337\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Malik-Willis-2-e1737388415737.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=782\" alt=\"Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5261337\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5261337\">GettyGreen Bay Packers quarterback Malik Willis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Love finished the day 8-of-13 passing for 77 yards. Backup quarterback Malik Willis went 9-of-11 for 121 yards and one score. He also ran the football 10 times for 44 yards and finished the evening second on the team in rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Willis, he also suffered an injury near the end of regulation \u2014 a shoulder issue that LaFleur addressed during his media session on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say he\u2019s pretty sore. I mean, it\u2019s a legitimate deal that he\u2019s dealing with,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cHe\u2019s gonna be another guy that just, we\u2019ll see where he\u2019s at as we progress. And that further complicates the other problem [with Love].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur wasn\u2019t able to offer much comfort to fans regarding the team\u2019s emergency QB situation. He named two non-quarterbacks as the team\u2019s potential third options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have two guys that we can potentially [put] in there,\u201d LaFleur added. \u201c[Running back] Josh Jacobs is one, and [wide receiver] Jayden Reed is the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers are facing injuries to their top two quarterbacks, Jordan Love and Malik Willis, heading into Week 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-bay-packers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=40216\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Packers Offer Telling Update on Jordan Love After Concussion - 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