The Packers have spent years treating the offensive line like a moving puzzle, and now Jordan Morgan is the piece that has to lock into place. After being bounced around everywhere but center, the 2024 first-round pick is finally being handed the job that matters most: left tackle.
That puts Morgan squarely in the spotlight as Jordan Love’s blind-side protector, and there’s no escaping the pressure that comes with it. Green Bay let Rasheed Walker walk to the Panthers on the open market, which leaves Morgan as the answer on the edge after a rookie year that was interrupted by a right shoulder injury and a season spent learning multiple spots.
The numbers tell the story of how much Morgan has had to absorb. He’s logged only 51 regular-season snaps at left tackle for the Packers, according to PFF, while also taking on 148 snaps at right tackle, 191 at left guard and 358 at right guard. That kind of cross-training can build versatility, but it also means he’s still relatively untested at the one position he now has to own.
Left tackle is a premium job in the NFL for a reason. When it works, it protects the quarterback’s blind side and stabilizes the entire offense.
When it doesn’t, the failure is impossible to miss. For Morgan, there’s no longer any wiggle room or hidden role to fall back on.
His third season arrives at a time when the Packers’ margin for error feels especially tight. The team’s youth movement helped carry it to a surprise run to the Divisional Round, but after a playoff collapse to the rival Chicago Bears and with the NFC North stacked, the pressure around this offense has only grown.
Morgan’s assignment also says plenty about how Green Bay views him. The Packers have long been comfortable shuffling linemen to find the best five, and head coach Matt LaFleur has already shown plenty of trust in Morgan by making him learn four different positions, including both guard spots as a rookie. That’s not the kind of workload teams hand out casually.
Still, the rest of the line doesn’t exactly offer a safety net. Aaron Banks, the pricey free-agent addition at left guard, has struggled.
Sean Rhyan is in line to start at center after getting an extension this offseason. Anthony Belton is only in his second year and is working through the transition from left tackle at NC State to right guard.
Zach Tom remains the most accomplished blocker up front, but he’s coming off a partially torn patellar tendon that required surgery.
So while Morgan is the headline, he’s not operating in a vacuum. The Packers will need Love and LaFleur to keep the protection calls clean and the offense organized so the line isn’t constantly put in bad spots.
For now, though, the spotlight belongs to Morgan. He came into the league as a tackle, learned everything else along the way, and now has to prove he can handle the one job Green Bay needs him to do most.
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