The Green Bay Packers signed free agent quarterback Tyrod Taylor on Monday, giving Jordan Love a veteran backup and reshaping the depth chart behind their starter. Taylor, 36, arrives after going 1-3 as a starter for the Jets in 2025.
The move puts a familiar name into a role the Packers had to fill after Malik Willis, who had been the backup for the past two seasons, signed with the Miami Dolphins in free agency. Taylor has now played for seven NFL teams — the Ravens, Bills, Browns, Chargers, Texans, Giants and Jets — and the Packers are betting on that experience to stabilize a room that also includes Desmond Ridder, Kyle McCord and Kyron Drones competing for the third quarterback spot.
Jordan Love remains the starter, but the signing answers one of the team's most obvious roster questions. Taylor was selected as a Pro Bowler in 2015, and while his latest stop in New York was uneven, the Packers are adding a quarterback who has seen just about every kind of NFL situation.
That matters in Green Bay because Love is viewed as injury-prone, and the team now has a reliable backup behind him. Ridder brings NFL starting experience, McCord is entering his second pro season after a record-setting 2024 campaign at Syracuse, and Drones is an undrafted rookie out of Virginia Tech, but Taylor is the one with the clearest path to the No. 2 job. The question now is how the Packers sort out the rest of the depth chart before the season begins.
