Current:Home > FinanceGreen Bay Packers trade for Malik Willis, a backup QB with the Tennessee Titans-LoTradeCoin
Green Bay Packers trade for Malik Willis, a backup QB with the Tennessee Titans
View Date:2024-12-24 00:15:56
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers are going young with their backup quarterback but it will be the Tennessee Titans' Malik Willis and not one of their recent draft picks.
The Packers have sent a seventh-round draft pick to the Tennessee Titans for Willis, a third-round pick in the 2022 draft, a source confirmed.
ESPN was first to report the trade.
NFL ROSTER CUTS 2024: Latest updates on teams' notable moves
DO YOU LIKE FOOTBALL? Then you'll enjoy getting our NFL newsletter delivered to your inbox
NFL STATS CENTRAL: The latest NFL scores, schedules, odds, stats and more.
Willis started three games for the Titans in two years and threw no touchdowns and three interceptions, going 1-2 in those games. He completed 31 of 61 passes for 276 yards.
Willis played better in the preseason this year, completing 20 of 27 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns with an interception, but he couldn’t beat out Mason Rudolph for the backup position behind recent first-round pick Will Levis.
The Packers are choosing Willis over 2023 fifth-round pick Sean Clifford and 2024 seventh-round pick Michael Pratt.
Combined they led the offense to three touchdowns in 28 series, which is not going to get it done in the regular season. Their individual stats weren’t as important as their ability to move the team.
Pratt has a better arm and averaged more yards per play (4.78 to 3.76) than Clifford. One of his drives ran out the clock and might have led to a score had it occurred earlier in the game, but only once did he get the ball in the end zone. He went scoreless in six possessions against Denver.
Clifford got the ball in the end zone twice and led the team to three field goals (both quarterbacks had one possession that ended with a missed field goal). Clifford was an interception machine in practice but was picked off just once.
One of the two quarterbacks will likely be signed to the practice squad.
veryGood! (3)
Related
- Will Trump’s hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect’s immunity claim
- Miss Alabama Sara Milliken Claps Back at Body-Shamers
- Bravo's Captain Lee Rosbach Reveals Shocking Falling Out With Carl Radke After Fight
- A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream
- Secret Service Agent Allegedly Took Ex to Barack Obama’s Beach House
- Optimism is just what the doctor ordered. But what if I’m already too negative?
- Yemen's Houthi rebels detain at least 9 U.N. staffers, officials tell AP
- Elizabeth Smart Reveals How She Manages Her Worries About Her Own Kids' Safety
- Ex-Phoenix Suns employee files racial discrimination, retaliation lawsuit against the team
- Ariana Grande's The Boy Is Mine Video Features Cameos From Brandy, Monica and More
Ranking
- Guns smuggled from the US are blamed for a surge in killings on more Caribbean islands
- Missing 21-year-old woman possibly with man and his missing 2-year-old daughter
- California man arrested after police say he shot at random cars, killing father of 4
- New COVID variant KP.3 climbs to 25%, now largest in CDC estimates
- Mike Tyson concedes the role of villain to young foe in 58-year-old’s fight with Jake Paul
- Teenager who killed 4 in Michigan high school shooting appeals life sentence
- Iconic Victorian 'Full House' home for sale in San Francisco: Here's what it's listed for
- Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open.
Recommendation
-
Biden, Harris participate in Veterans Day ceremony | The Excerpt
-
Oklahoma softball completes four-peat national championship at the WCWS and it was the hardest yet
-
Experimental student testing model slated for statewide rollout
-
GameStop stock plunges after it reports quarterly financial loss
-
Guns smuggled from the US are blamed for a surge in killings on more Caribbean islands
-
Oregon closes more coastal shellfish harvesting due to ‘historic high levels’ of toxins
-
Bravo's Captain Lee Rosbach Reveals Shocking Falling Out With Carl Radke After Fight
-
The Brat Pack met the Rat Pack when Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe partied with Sammy Davis Jr.