NFL storylines Week 9: A little Love for Packers

Week 9 is upon america successful the NFL, and storylines abound.

Not the slightest of which — what’s adjacent for erstwhile Browns receiver Odell Beckham and volition Jordan Love instrumentality vantage of his accidental to commencement successful Green Bay?

Here are 4 to absorption connected this week:

A small Love

The troublesome concern successful Green Bay, wherever Packers backmost Aaron Rodgers not lone turned up affirmative with COVID-19 but besides evidently played a slick crippled of semantics successful explaining his vaccination status, has opened a doorway for Love, a 2020 first-round pick.

The erstwhile Utah State standout volition get the commencement against the Kansas City Chiefs. He is tasked with keeping the 7-1 Packers connected way successful a competitory NFC. As importantly, helium tin soothe concerns that helium isn’t a worthy semipermanent replacement enactment for Rodgers should Rodgers unit his mode retired of Green Bay astatine the extremity of the season.

Rodgers’ exit appears imminent, and that definite would beryllium easier to judge if Love tin amusement he’s susceptible of taking the reigns.

As Odell turns

Where Beckham goes, contention follows. The wide receiver was released Friday by the Browns, ending a rocky two-plus-year enactment with the team. Teams won’t beryllium capable to assertion Beckham connected waivers until astatine slightest Tuesday.

The concern took a melodramatic crook aboriginal past week erstwhile Beckham’s begetter posted a video connected Instagram successful which helium highlighted instances wherever Browns backmost Baker Mayfield either didn’t spot a wide-open Beckham oregon missed throws to him.

The Browns held him retired of signifier connected Wednesday and Thursday, earlier parting ways officially with him connected Friday. Where helium lands adjacent volition beryllium the adjacent occurrence successful this melodrama. The Raiders could beryllium interested.

Saints’ QB dilemma

The unfortunate season-ending genu wounded suffered by Saints backmost Jameis Winston has wholly changed the dynamic of the astonishing Saints, who improved to 5-2 with a triumph implicit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but indispensable transportation connected without Winston.

The Saints present person a question connected their hands. Do they crook to Taysom Hill, whose underwhelming quality to propulsion the shot doesn’t precisely offset his dynamic moving ability?

In tiny spurts Hill plays good arsenic a change-of-pace option, but however volition helium respond arsenic a full-time backmost who volition person to successfully propulsion the ball?

That is the dilemma for the Saints, opening Sunday against the Falcons. The alternate is Trevor Siemian, a much accepted QB.

Rams rotation dice

The Rams made a bold determination connected Monday by trading for aboriginal Hall of Famer Von Miller, the dynamic borderline rusher of the Denver Broncos.

They paid a hefty price, sending a 2022 second- and third-round prime to the Broncos, who assumed the remaining $9 cardinal of Miller’s declaration to facilitate the move.

But the Rams person large aspirations, and they are not acrophobic to portion with draught picks to get proven veterans. That is the crippled they played successful reeling successful Jalen Ramsey and Matthew Stafford.

The scary portion for aboriginal Rams opponents, specified arsenic the Titans connected Sunday: How bash you woody with Miller, ferocious antiaircraft tackle Aaron Donald and pass-rush specializer Leonard Floyd? Not to notation Ramsey, the playmaker connected the backmost end?