The Green Bay Packers created a lot of drama when they drafted Jordan Love in the first round of the NFL Draft last week.
The latest report indicates the selection was influenced more by general manager Brian Gutekunst than coach Matt LaFleur.
\"Matt was on the [phone] line with us and understood where I was coming from,\" Gutekunst said of the pick. \"I think it was one of those things where, again, with a second-year head coach, I certainly wasn\'t going to give him a player he didn\'t want. ....
\"It\'s not something we anticipated. It kind of fell to us, and we were excited about that. I know a lot of people will look at this as not a move for the immediate, and I understand that, but the balance of the immediate and the long term is something that I have to consider, and that’s why we did it.\"
Via ESPN