Even though his first two years in the NFL may suggest a career already down for the count, Green Bay Packers quarterback DeShone Kizer would like to make it clear that nobody should count him out.
The 23-year-old QB is preparing to start his second season with the Packers after being traded from the Cleveland Browns last March. Remaining within this league is a privilege no player can take for granted and, as he enters Year , Kizer recently expressed that he is feeling the heat more than previously.
« Right now, it is about making sure that every time I step on that field that I’m giving 100-percent work. There’s no complacency, » Kizer informed Jim Owczarski of USA Today’s Packers News. « There’s no’second year’ anymore. You develop within sports really focusing in on development and understanding there is a timeline that’s set up, so you don’t necessarily put as much stress on yourself to get things done right away.
« Well, that deadline is beginning to shrink for me in the sense which the lifespan of a typical NFL athlete is three decades. This is year three for me. I’ve gone out there, I have put stuff on tape and today it’s all about making sure that from here on out everything that I put on tape actually reflects who I know I could be. »
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To this point, Kizer’s film will reveal flashes of possible mixed with all the woes displayed by many young QBs ahead of him. In his lone season with the Browns, Kizer was the man on a team that became just the next team in NFL history to go 0-16.
Kizer started 15 games that year — the one DNP came via a benching in Week 6 — and listed 11 touchdowns, 2,894 passing yards and a league-high 22 interceptions. In three game looks with Green Bay, he went 20 of 42 for 187 yards and two picks.
Fast forward to 2019, Kizer is ready to change his public perception. Since Aaron Rodgers’ understudy, Kizer’s goals may sound lofty but the Notre Dame product has said he’s willing to spend the job.
« Personnel, particularly in this organization, is strictly upstairs. And I do not work upstairs. My workplace is downstairs. Therefore, my mindset is about me. I have all of the confidence in the entire world that if I’m playing my very best ball there’s no one that will stop me, » he shared. « For me to compare myself to a different backup quarterback who is in or a tryout guy who comes in could be dumb of me in the feeling that I would be limiting myself because I don’t find myself as a career backup in this league.
« I really don’t see myself as Aaron Rodgers’ copy for the last era of his profession. I see myself. That is the goal I wish to go toward. That’s the amount I would like to play at. Consequently, if I’m competing and focused in on the backup competition, then once more, I’m limiting myself. »
Getting from underneath Rodgers’ highly touted shadow won’t be easy but Kizer will have a chance to continue learning from one of the game’s best in hopes of one day getting another beginning location.
His career thus far has lacked consistency — he will be playing beneath his fourth head coach in three seasons this season — but he is not letting him. Kizer believes his assurance and attention will gradually separate him.
« I truly believe that I’m on an upward trajectory. I am enjoying the best soccer I have ever playedwith. I’m turning the ball over as much anymore. I’m seeing the game, » he said. « I’m learning a lot from Aaron. I am learning so much from the systems that I’ve been in I really believe that at any given point in time since we speak, if I could continue to remain on the road that I’m on right now, I can get back to the path that I thought that I was on as a newcomer starting in this league. »
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