Although his first two years in the NFL may indicate 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 begin his second season with the Packers after being traded in the Cleveland Browns past March. Remaining in this league is a chance no player can take for granted and, as he enters Year 3, Kizer recently expressed that he’s feeling the heat more than previously.
“Right now, it is about making sure that every time I step out on that field that I’m giving 100-percent effort. There is no complacency,” Kizer told Jim Owczarski of USA Today’s Packers News. “There’s not any’second year’ anymore. You develop within sports really focusing in on development and understanding there’s a deadline that’s in place, so you don’t necessarily put as much pressure on yourself to get things done immediately.
“Well, that timeline is starting to shrink for me in the sense that the lifespan of an average NFL athlete is just three decades. This is year three to me. I have gone , I have set stuff on tape and now it is about making certain that from here on out everything that I set tape really reflects who I know I can be.”
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For this point, Kizer’s film will reveal flashes of possible mixed together with the woes displayed by lots of young QBs before him. In his lone season with the Browns, Kizer was the man on a team that became only the second group in NFL history to go 0-16.
Kizer started 15 games that season — the one DNP came through a benching in Week 6 — also recorded 11 touchdowns, 2,894 passing yards and a league-high 22 interceptions. In three game looks with Green Bay, he travelled 20 of 42 for 187 yards and two picks.
Fast forward to 2019, Kizer is prepared to change his public perception. As Aaron Rodgers’ understudy, Kizer’s goals may sound lofty but the Notre Dame product has said he is willing to put in the job.
“Personnel, especially within this organization, is strictly upstairs. And I don’t get the job done upstairs. My workplace is downstairs. Therefore, my mentality is about me. I have all the confidence in the world that when I’m playing my best ball there is no one who will stop me,” he shared. “For me to compare myself into another backup quarterback who’s in or a tryout man who comes in would be dumb of me in the feeling that I’d be restricting myself since I really don’t see myself as a career backup in this league.
“I don’t see myself as Aaron Rodgers’ backup for the last era of his career. I see myself as a future Super Bowl MVP. That is the goal I want to go toward. That at. Therefore, if I’m competing and focused in on the backup competition, then once more, I am limiting myself.”
Getting from underneath Rodgers’ highly touted shadow won’t be simple but Kizer is going to have a chance to continue learning from among the game’s greatest in hopes of one day becoming another starting spot.
His career thus far has lacked consistency — he’ll be playing beneath his fourth head coach in three seasons this past season — but he is not letting him. Kizer believes his confidence and focus will distinguish him.
“I truly believe that I am on an upward trajectory. I am playing the best football I have ever played. I’m turning the ball over as much anymore. I am seeing the game,” he explained. “I am learning so much from Aaron. I am learning so much from the systems that I’ve been in that I really think that at any given point in time as we talk, if I can continue to remain on the path which I am on at the moment, I can contact the path that I thought that I had been on as a newcomer starting in this league.”

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