Aaron Rodgers

The Green Bay Packers traded superstar wide receiver Davante Adams this offseason to the Las Vegas Raiders and have chosen to go with a younger group at the position in the aftermath.

And those players aren't getting up to speed fast enough for two-time defending MVP Aaron Rodgers.

"The young guys, especially young receivers, we've got to be way more consistent," he told reporters on Tuesday. "A lot of drops, a lot of bad route decisions, running the wrong route. We've got to get better in that area."

Per ESPN's Rob Demovsky, Rodgers wasn't frustrated with the veteran trio of Allen Lazard, Randall Cobb or Sammy Watkins.

More than likely, it was more directed toward players like fourth-round pick Romeo Doubs—who dropped a pass during Tuesday's practice against the New Orleans Saints defense that Rodgers described as his best throw of the day—and second-year wideout Amari Rodgers.

Second-round pick Christian Watson has yet to participate in 11-on-11 practices as he recovers from offseason knee surgery.

"We're going to play our best guys when the season starts," Rodgers noted. "And whoever those guys are, those guys are going to get the reps. It's the guys I trust the most and the guys the coaches trust the most. A lot of it is just the simple responsibility in the offense. Way before body positioning and movement and throw, and all that stuff, are you in the right spot at the right time? Are you running the right route?"

"You keep dropping the ball, you're not going to be out there," he added. "It's going to be the most reliable guys that are out there. The preparation and the job responsibility is most important. There's going to be physical mistakes, like we've talked about, but if you're going out there and dropping the ball and somebody else behind you is in the right spot all the time and catching the ball, that guy's going to play."

There's no doubt that receiver is a major question mark heading into the 2022 season with Adams now in Sin City. Lazard will presumably be the team's top option, though his best season (40 catches for 513 yards and eight touchdowns in 2021) doesn't exactly scream "superstar."

Cobb and Watkins, meanwhile, bring plenty of experience to the table, though neither is a showstopper at this point. That has put a lot of pressure heading into the season on players like Watson, Doubs and Amari Rodgers to emerge as a legitimate threat.

At the moment, it appears Aaron Rodgers has limited confidence in that young group.

The California High School Football Hall of Fame is going big with its inaugural class that will be unveiled at the Rose Bowl later this year.

The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation announced the class of 113 players and coaches includes Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and John Elway.

Other notable athletes who will be inducted are Jackie Robinson, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman.

Per NFL.com's Grant Gordon, the entire class features 29 players who have already been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Per Eric Sondheimer of the Los Angeles Times, players and coaches were nominated for the Hall of Fame "by the public and suggested by media sources for their contributions to high school football in California."

Robinson, who attended John Muir High School (Pasadena, California) starting in 1935, played baseball, football, track and basketball. Football was considered his best sport while he was in college at UCLA.

Brady was born and raised in California. The six-time Super Bowl champion played high school football at Junípero Serra. He was also a baseball player and got selected by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 MLB draft after he graduated.

A four-time NFL MVP, Rodgers briefly lived in Oregon before his family returned to California. He graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in 2002. The Green Bay Packers superstar set a school record with 2,466 passing yards in 2001.

Elway, like Brady, excelled in baseball and football as a high schooler. He was selected in the MLB draft twice, including out of Granada Hills High School in 1979 (18th round by the Kansas City Royals).

According to Gordon, the Rose Bowl is honoring 100 players in the inaugural class in celebration of the Rose Bowl Stadium's 100-year anniversary in 2022.

The California High School Football Hall of Fame is set to open in November, with a formal induction ceremony for the inaugural class taking place in the spring of 2023.

The Green Bay Packers offense has been struggling through training camp thus far, but veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes the team will only be better for it.

Rodgers said Tuesday, via Sports Illustrated's Bill Huber:

"I think it's important. How we deal with adversity is how we reveal the character of our football team. Especially on offense. We need to take our lumps and figure out what kind of football team we're going to be. So, I love it. It's great. It feels good, the defense having that confidence. There's been some training camps [where] we've beat the hell out of them. And it doesn't do great for their confidence.”

The Green Bay defense has been the star of training camp this summer, which comes as no surprise given the fact it is led by a talented group of veterans that includes Preston Smith, De'Vondre Campbell, Kenny Clark, Jarran Reed, Rashan Gary, Jaire Alexander and more.

There's no weak link in the Green Bay defense, and Rodgers even told reporters earlier this week that he expected the offense to get beaten up by the defense all summer.

"I felt coming into camp, to be honest, we were going to get our butts kicked most days because our defense is talented and deep and athletic. It’s one of the best defenses, on paper, that we’ve had," Rodgers said.

However, the Packers offense took a massive blow this summer with the loss of Davante Adams, who was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders and then signed a five-year, $140 million deal with the franchise.

Adams was Green Bay's top receiver, and arguably the best in the NFL. He had a career year in 2021, catching 123 passes for 1,553 yards and 11 touchdowns in 16 games. In his eight seasons with the Packers, he posted 8,121 yards and 73 touchdowns in 116 games.

Replacing the 29-year-old was no easy task, and the Packers are turning to a combination of Randall Cobb, Sammy Watkins, Allen Lazard, Christian Watson, Amari Rodgers and Romeo Doubs in 2022.

Only Cobb and Watkins have posted seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards. Cobb did so in 2014 with the Packers and Watkins did in 2015 as a member of the Buffalo Bills.

A more significant issue for the Green and Gold might be their offensive line. Yosuah Nijman, Jon Runyan, Josh Myers, Jake Hanson and Royce Newman are slated to be the team's starters entering the regular season.

Those players have combined for just 46 starts, and theIR inexperience could be a significant factor this season.

The returns of David Bakhtiari and Elgton Jenkins should help, though it's unclear when either will return as both are recovering from torn ACLs.

There's still plenty of time for the Packers offense to work out some of its issues this summer, and a big test will come in Friday's preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers. The regular season doesn't begin until Sept. 11.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said that he doesn't see a reason to play just one series if he's going to suit up for preseason games.

"I don't see any benefit to it," Rodgers said Tuesday, per Rob Demovsky of ESPN. "I definitely don't see any benefit to playing one series. If we're going to play, we should play and play a quarter, a couple of series, two to three series. Just suiting up for four plays, to me, is a waste."

Head coach Matt LaFleur told reporters Monday that Rodgers won't play in either of the Packers' first two preseason games, but the door is not shut on him suiting up for the finale Aug. 25 against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Packers endured a rough preseason last year, going 0-3 and getting outscored 68-21. Rodgers didn't play, but he and the rest of the team got off to a rough start when the New Orleans Saints crushed them 38-3 in the regular-season opener.

LaFleur said early in camp that performance might affect how he ramps up to the 2022 regular season.

"I think you've got to learn from every situation you've been in," he said, per Demovsky. "At least it stimulates conversation."

Green Bay did get on track in Week 2 with seven straight wins en route to a 13-4 season.

The Packers will also have a new look in the passing game after they traded Davante Adams and let Marquez Valdes-Scantling walk in free agency.

In addition, the offensive line, which Demovsky wrote has "struggled in practice," is a work in progress.

Ultimately, Rodgers acknowledged both sides of the preseason debate:

"I think it's kind of a no-win situation to the outside of the building. If somebody gets hurt [it's], 'I can't believe they played our guys.' But if we go out and have a stinker [it's], 'I can't believe they didn't play them.' You've just got to do what's best for the squad, and Matt's going to do that. He's going to lean on the leaders of the football team and if he feels like we need to go out and play, we'll go out and play. But I don't want to just go out and play three plays. That, to me, is a waste of time."

Green Bay opens the campaign on the road at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sept. 11 against the Minnesota Vikings.

Allen Lazard said he's ready for the challenge of trying to replace five-time Pro Bowler Davante Adams as the Green Bay Packers' No. 1 wide receiver.

Lazard discussed his more prominent role in the Aaron Rodgers-led passing attack following Adams' trade to the Las Vegas Raiders on the NFL Network's Good Morning Football.

"Extremely confident. It's something I've been working hard at for the past several years," Lazard said Tuesday. "It's not, like, an unfamiliar role for me. I'm doing it on a different level. I'm looking forward to the opportunity."

Green Bay didn't make any blockbuster additions to its receiving corps after Adams' departure in March, a decision that comes with some risk given the back-to-back MVP seasons that Rodgers produced while throwing to one of the league's best wideouts.

Instead, the Packers are betting on their internal options to step up and fill key roles.

Randall Cobb returned to the team last season, but he played a minor role. It's unclear whether he can still produce at the level he did in 2014, when he recorded 91 catches for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns during the second of Rodgers' four MVP campaigns.

Green Bay invested two mid-round draft picks on rookie receivers: Christian Watson, who's missed the start of training camp with a knee injury, and camp standout Romeo Doubs.

The front office also signed Sammy Watkins, who's flashed playmaking ability across eight NFL seasons but has struggled to stay healthy consistently.

Yet, while the Packers feature solid depth at the position, the key question is whether anyone on the roster can come anywhere close to filling Adams' massive shoes. Lazard figures to get the first crack.

Rodgers told reporters in July he's confident in the 26-year-old Iowa State product:

"He's capable of a lot. And the way things have gone with the reps and the guys that we've had here and the targets that we've doled out, he hasn't had a ton of opportunities. Since his first day here, he's turned heads, so it's not surprising for him to go out and have a really consistent day today. But he's been working hard. He has a lot to prove, to himself, to other people, to the team as well. I like a hungry Allen Lazard. It will be an adjustment for us, but I'm happy with Day 1."

Lazard, who joined the Packers off the Jacksonville Jaguars' practice squad in 2018, is coming off a solid 2021 season. He recorded 40 catches for 513 yards and eight touchdowns in a complementary role.

Now he'll be tasked with handling a sizable increase from his career-high 60 targets last year while often matching up against an opponent's top cornerback.

How he handles that role in the early weeks of the regular season will likely determine whether he's one of the year's breakout sensations or fades into a time-share.

Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently revealed his experience using the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca during a retreat to Peru in 2020.

According to ESPN, Rodgers did not violate the NFL's drug policy with his use of the drink, which is defined as "a psychoactive beverage native to South America and is often used for religious, ritualistic or medicinal purposes."

Per ESPN, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Monday that ayahuasca wouldn't have triggered a positive drug test result on either of the substance abuse or performance-enhancing substance policies under the league and NFLPA's collective bargaining agreement.

While speaking on The Aubrey Marcus Podcast last week, Rodgers said the retreat gave him "a deep and meaningful appreciation for life." He added, "I came back and knew I was never going to be the same." Rodgers went on to win his third of four MVP awards in 2020, and he said he believed the experience helped lead to his success that season.

Rodgers told NBC Sports' Peter King that he enjoyed it so much that he returned to Peru once more.

"Then I went again this offseason and had another beautiful experience," Rodgers said. "[It was] different, very different. Different size group, different amount of days."

On Monday, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was asked if he was concerned if Rodgers would face discipline from the NFL, and he responded, "I really haven't given it much thought at all."

The Packers are gearing up for their first preseason game this Friday against the San Francisco 49ers.

Aaron Rodgers is entering his 18th NFL season, and he's only getting better with age, having won the last two NFL MVP awards. But the 38-year-old isn't going to play forever.

Rodgers told The MMQB's Albert Breer that when it's time to hang it up, he won't drag out the decision. With that said, his passion for playing remains:

If I didn't have the passion to be out there, I would've said, I'm done. There was a time where I wanted to be a full-time contributor in the offseason. But as my year-long plan has kind of adjusted, I've found what works best for me. Spending time in the offseason in Southern California with my workout group and my trainers and my body-work people and my massage therapists is what gets me ready to play. But when I get back here it's all about focus on this season.

I'd never say this is my last year or I'm gonna play two more or three more. I'm never gonna hold the team hostage and drag anything out. But I need to focus on this season, and then get away from it and see how I'm feeling and then make a decision. And then once I make a decision like I did this year, then I'm full-go, 100 percent committed. And until I'm not willing to do that, I'm gonna keep playing.

The Packers are certainly glad he's back. Rodgers completed 68.9 percent of his passes for 4,115 yards, 37 touchdowns and only four interceptions across 16 starts last season. Over the last three seasons, Rodgers is 39-9 as the team's starter during the regular season.

While Rodgers' recent playoff record is more spotty, the Packers have been in contention over the past few years in large part because of him.

It will be the Jordan Love show for the Green Bay Packers when they take the field Friday for their preseason opener against the San Francisco 49ers.

Head coach Matt LaFleur said starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers will not play against the 49ers or in the second preseason game against the New Orleans Saints, per The Athletic. From there, it remains undecided whether he will take the field for the final preseason contest against the Kansas City Chiefs.

That leaves the offense in Love's hands, and he will start against San Francisco.

The Packers selected Love with a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL draft, and there have been times when he seemed like their quarterback of the future given the uncertainty about how long Rodgers will play.

While Rodgers agreed to a three-year extension this offseason, he is also 38 years old and has been rather open about his desire to not play as long as counterpart Tom Brady.

"No, I don't," he told reporters when asked if he saw himself playing until he is 45 years old.

That makes the preseason reps all the more valuable for Love, who could eventually be tasked with following in the footsteps of Rodgers as the Packers' franchise quarterback. He appeared in six games with one start last year and was relatively inconsistent while completing 58.1 percent of his passes for 411 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions.

Preseason starts give the Utah State product an opportunity to read NFL defenses while playing at game speeds and perhaps take strides that Rodgers did long ago.

Rodgers, meanwhile, likely doesn't need to take the field in the preseason to be ready to play come the season opener against the Minnesota Vikings. His illustrious resume includes a Super Bowl ring, four league MVPs and 10 Pro Bowl selections.

And his presence under center makes the Packers realistic Super Bowl contenders again in 2022, regardless of whether he takes a single preseason snap.