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If you thought Aaron Rodgers' body language and sideline interactions were scrutinized before, get ready for it to be multiplied. The rules of Hot Sports Takes require you to pick a side: You either have to love the Jordan Love pick or hate it. If we're looking strictly at today and slightly more broadly at the season, we hate it. It's reasonable (and actually responsible) to plan for the future at quarterback, but it also feels like disaster waiting to happen.

Why didn't they help Aaron Rodgers in the draft? Why didn't they help the defense? Trading up in the first round for a quarterback was a bad move.

Aaron Rodgers has 364 career TD passes ... one to a first-round pick! (Answer: Marcedes Lewis.) Unless controversial first-round QB Jordan Love splits out wide, that ain't changing any time soon.

Player who benefited: WR Allen Lazard. The former undrafted free agent finished last season as WR2 behind Davante Adams, but just about everyone expected the Packers to make significant additions to the position group. Yet all they've done so far is sign Devin Funchess, who missed most of last season because of an injury. Lazard might lack speed and burst, but he stands above the rest of the Packers' wideouts at 6-foot-5. Said coach Matt LaFleur after the Packers did not draft a single receiver: "Allen Lazard, the things he brought to us from a physicality standpoint, he made a bunch of big plays." -- Rob Demovsky

Well, that was interesting. Packers fans and football pundits went into the draft expecting Green Bay to add a wide receiver (or two) to help support Aaron Rodgers. Instead, the Packers passed on any receiver from a historically deep class and instead drafted Rodgers' possible replacement with their first-round pick. I may envy Jordan Love's youth, athleticism and bank account, but being Rodgers' teammate at this moment in time feels ... dicey. After taking Love, Green Bay used its next pick on a between-the-tackles pounder in Boston College running back A.J. Dillon. Huh. Cincinnati tight end Josiah Deguara, the team's third-rounder, could add some value in the passing game in time, but this is not the draft that anyone expected. We imagine Rodgers is fine with some social distancing for the time being.