Paul Bretl | 8/14/2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. — After undergoing successful surgery on his left thumb on Tuesday morning, Packers’ quarterback Jordan Love joined the team in Indianapolis for a joint practice with the Colts.
Love, of course, did not participate in the practice but echoed the same sentiments as Brian Gutekunst and Matt LaFleur, saying that he will start working his way back on the practice field next week.
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The injury occurred on Love’s final play of the preseason opener when he hit his hand on a helmet as he was being sacked. Love suffered a torn ligament in his left thumb on the play.
“When it happened, I kind of came to the sideline, didn’t really think too much of it,” Love said after Thursday’s joint practice with the Colts. “As I was sitting there on the sideline just messing with it, that’s when I talked to the trainers and tried to get their feel for it.
“That’s when we went back and did some more evaluation on it. Obviously, didn’t think too much of it at first.”
Love went through a full practice on Monday with his left thumb taped to see how the injury felt and how it held up throughout the session as part of the evaluation and decision-making process.
Love acknowledged that had this injury happened in the middle of the season, he “probably” wouldn’t have gotten the surgery. But with time still on his side, with the regular season still a few weeks away, Love opted to get the procedure so he could enter the regular season fully healthy.
“I think with the timeframe that we have right now,” Love said, “finishing up training camp and preseason and heading into the season with the choice to be going into the season 100 percent healthy was definitely the call I wanted to make. Dealing with injuries last year, I wanted to go into this thing feeling good.”
While Love expects to return to the practice field next week, he wasn’t ready to decide whether or not he would take part in the Packers’ joint practice against Seattle.
It wasn’t only Love who the Packers’ offense was without on Thursday, but a number of the team’s top wideouts were sidelined as well, including Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, and Savion Williams.
The injuries forced the Packers to rely on a number of young pass catchers to go up against the Colts’ first-team defense. As a bystander, Love thought there was some good from the Packers’ offense, but on a day where the Colts’ defense was the clear winner, the joint practice truly tested Green Bay’s youth at the wideout position on Thursday.
“I think for a lot of those guys it’s a great opportunity,” Love said. “Like you said, we got a lot of receivers down right now dealing with injuries. For those guys they look at it as a great opportunity. But I think that’s a test for all those guys. Really test your rules and you’ve been going with a certain offense and now you’re getting thrown in the fire with the ones and things like that. So it tests your understanding of the offense and are you on all the details?
“I think for a couple of those guys, they’ve been making some plays out there and really stepped up and that’s what you want to see. But for everybody, it’s how much do you know? How much more work do you need to put in to understand the offense to get better with only having two more preseason games left? There’s definitely some stuff to clean up and get better at but I think for a lot of those guys it’s a great opportunity.”