Jordan Love has never felt better about a three and out.
Love made the most of limited playing time, throwing a 65-yard touchdown pass to Dontayvion Wicks on Green Bay’s third play as the Packers rolled to a 23-10 exhibition win over the Cleveland Browns on Saturday.
Love, who signed a four-year, $220 million contract extension at the start of training camp last month, completed both pass attempts in his one series. Sean Clifford replaced the 25-year-old Love.
“I’m happy with it,” Love said of his brief appearance. “It ended with a touchdown. That was the goal.”
While the Packers got Love some work, the Browns rested starting quarterback Deshaun Watson, who is coming off right shoulder surgery.
Watson has thrown almost every day in camp and appears to be on track to start the Sept. 8 season opener against Dallas. But the Browns are remaining cautious with Watson, who has been limited to just 12 games in his first two seasons with Cleveland.
Backup QB Jameis Winston started for the Browns and played just one series. He went 4 of 5 for 30 yards.
Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur chose to give many of his starters some playing time.
Packers rookie running back MarShawn Lloyd went out with a hamstring injury. The third-round pick from USC had one carry for 8 yards.
Bears’ Williams leads two field-goal drives
Though the ever-confident quarterback never doubted himself, Caleb Williams still found his NFL preseason debut performance reassuring in helping lead the Chicago Bears to a 33-6 win over the Buffalo Bills on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Williams went 4 of 7 for 95 yards in overseeing two drives that ended with field goals.
Commanders’ Daniels impressive in only drive
Jayden Daniels showed up for his first NFL game for Washington wearing a throwback Doug Williams jersey.
Then, the No. 2 overall pick went out and played like the potential franchise quarterback the Commanders hope he’ll be in his only series in a 20-17 preseason-opening loss to the New York Jets on Saturday.
“Before I left, it was in my closet,” Daniels said with a smile while again wearing Williams’ No. 17 Washington jersey. “Hey, what better way to have my debut, first game than represent Doug and what he did for this organization.”
Daniels ran for a touchdown after throwing a perfectly placed deep pass for his first NFL completion to get Washington into New York territory. The former LSU star and most of the Commanders’ starters on offense played just the opening series against Jets backups.