Jordan Love and Drake Maye Earn Fedex Player of the Week Honors
WHO:
packers.com - Jordan Love, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.
patriots.com - Drake Maye, quarterback for the New England Patriots.
WHAT:
packers.com - Jordan Love was named the FedEx Air and Ground Player of the Week for his performance in Week 5.
packers.com - Love achieved a career-high passer rating of 137.5, completing 25-of-31 passes for 367 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
patriots.com - Drake Maye was also named one of the FedEx Air & Ground Players of the Week for Week 5.
packers.com - Love is the only quarterback in the NFL this season with two games of 350-plus passing yards and multiple passing touchdowns.
packers.com - Love became the first Packers quarterback with multiple games of 350-plus passing yards and multiple touchdowns within the first five games of a season since Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
packers.com - Love has three 300-yard passing games this season, a career high.
packers.com - Love is the fourth quarterback in Packers history to register three 300-yard games in the first five contests of a season.
WHERE:
packers.com - The events took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois.
WHEN:
packers.com - The performance recognized occurred during Week 5 of the NFL season.
WHY:
patriots.com - The FedEx Air & Ground NFL Awards program recognizes outstanding performances by quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends.
HOW:
packers.com - FedEx will donate $2,000 in the names of each winning player to Feeding America for a local food bank in their respective cities.
Jordan Love, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, has been named the FedEx Air and Ground Player of the Week for his impressive performance in Week 5, where he achieved a career-high passer rating of 137.5 by completing 25-of-31 passes for 367 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions. Love is the only quarterback in the NFL this season to have two games with over 350 passing yards and multiple touchdowns, and he became the first Packers quarterback since Aaron Rodgers in 2011 to accomplish this feat within the first five games of a season. As part of the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Awards program, FedEx will donate $2,000 in the names of each winning player to Feeding America for a local food bank in their respective cities.