Jordan Love warming up at training camp - Photo by Green Bay Packers
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) – Jordan Love, the new Green Bay Packers starting quarterback, “earned the trust of the locker room” after being Aaron Rodgers’ backup for the previous three seasons, according to running back AJ Dillon.
“I think he definitely has all the intangibles,” Dillon said on SiriusXM NFL Radio with Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. “He’s earned the trust of the locker room. Guys respect him. Guys wanna play for him. Guys wanna help him as much as they wanna help themselves. Nothing’s perfect in football, everybody knows that. I think he’s got a lot of support. Everybody would run through a wall for him.”
In June, Dillon told Packers.com’s Wes Hodkiewicz how he and Love became friends in the months before the draft through their mutual interest in Pokémon and sports trading cards.
“Aside from a teammate, I’m a big fan of his. I want him to be great,” Dillon told Hodkiewicz. “I want him to go out there and do everything he’s ever dreamt of, and he can.”
Dillon noted that Love had proven to be a leader at OTAs this summer saying, “He’s been here since April, before we were even able to throw around the football and we were just running, running through drills,” Dillon said. “Everybody respects him. Everybody is listening when he’s talking and it’s really cool.”
The Packers first official workout of training camp is on July 26. Veterans report on July 25, while rookies, quarterbacks, and injured players report on July 21.
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