Sean Clifford won the Green Bay Packers’ backup quarterback job with ease last year. He’ll have a bigger challenge this year against Michael Pratt.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Backup quarterback is a unique position. In ranking quarterbacks, it’s what have you done for me lately. In ranking backup quarterbacks, it’s what have you done, period.
“Clifford, a 2023 fifth-round pick, only threw one pass during his rookie season,” Gilberto Manzano wrote. “The Packers are taking a gamble by relying on an inexperienced player to back up Jordan Love, but it says something that the team was comfortable with him filling the role for his second season.”
“He’s a gamer,” quarterbacks coach Tom Clements said before the start of OTAs. “A little bit of Matt Flynn in him. Once the season started, he was running the scout team and he started to become more familiar with our offense. And then running opposing team’s offenses, you usually have a lot of similar plays, and he ran the scout team very well.
Last year, Clifford beat out Danny Etling to be the backup. This year, he’ll have a bigger challenge against seventh-round draft pick Michael Pratt, who is
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