5 offseason moves the Green Bay Packers must make

3. Who will succeed/back up Aaron Rodgers?

Rodgers’ contract, with three more years of prohibitive cap hits and dead cap implications, means he’s not going anywhere anytime soon unless he retires. But if he were to miss time, as he has at times during his career, Tim Boyle is the current No. 2 quarterback for the Packers. Losing the starting quarterback would hurt all 32 teams, but on that scale of pain, Green Bay sits high compared to others if Rodgers were to miss a lot of games.

Ted Thompson was in place as general manager then, obviously, but the Packers drafted Rodgers in 2005 with Brett Favre firmly in place as the starter (shy of his annual retirement talk). Rodgers sat for three seasons, then took over as the starter. Sitting a first-round quarterback that long has become increasingly rare (if not an outright extinct concept) in the NFL, but the Packers can do it again if they want to.

At minimum, adding a veteran backup behind Rodgers is a below-the-radar priority for the Packers this offseason. In terms of his successor, it will be interesting if a well-regarded quarterback prospect is available when they go on the clock late in the first round of April’s draft. Would Gutekunst ignore a more immediate need to get the proverbial best player available with an eye on the future?