Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images McGough was signed to Green Bay practice squad last season after joining the team in July. The Green Bay Packers appear to be clearing the road for 2023 fifth-round pick Sean Clifford and 2024 seventh-round pick Michael Pratt to have a legitimate quarterback battle this preseason as Jordan Love’s backup. In the team’s most recent roster update, the Packers have listed former third-string quarterback Alex McGough as a receiver — which leaves the team with just three quarterbacks on their 90-man roster. McGough, a 2018 draft choice by the Seattle Seahawks, bounced around the NFL for four seasons before landing with the Birmingham Stallions in 2022. In his second year at the USFL level, McGough was able to earn the starting quarterback job for the Stallions, earning the USFL MVP as he passed for 2,105 yards and 20 touchdowns over nine starts for Birmingham. He also recorded eight passing touchdowns in the team’s two playoff games — which led to a Stallions league championship. Following the 2023 USFL season, he signed with the Packers in July. Unable to beat out Clifford for a spot on the 53-man roster, McGough served as the team’s practice squad quarterback in 2023 and signed a reserve/futures deal with Green Bay going into 2024. Receiver shouldn’t be a brand new position for McGough, as cornerback Jaire Alexander revealed that McGough was working as a pass-catcher during the 2023 season on the scout team. McGough apparently had a collision with Alexander during practice last year, which is how Alexander’s back got injured. At the moment, both Pratt and kicker Anders Carlson are assigned the number #17, just another example of how the pressure has turned up in the quarterback room. At least one of those players will need to change their numbers if they both make the 53-man roster at the end of cutdowns. Based on our staff exercise of trying to project the Packers’ 53-man roster, it’s going to be tough for McGough to make the 2024 Green Bay team as a receiver. The squad returns eight notable receivers this season: Christian Watson Jayden Reed, Romeo Doubs, Dontayvion Wicks, Bo Melton, Malik Heath, Samori Toure and Grant DuBose. Five of those players were draft picks made by the Packers who are still on rookie contracts. Heath made the team as an undrafted free agent last year. Melton was a former Seahawks draft pick who recorded a 100-yard game versus the Minnesota Vikings in his lone start of 2023 and also contributed to the team’s playoff rotation. With their first pick in the #USFLDraft, the #Stallions take QB Alex McGough.He scored a 7.82 #RAS out of a possible 10.0. This rates 152 out of 694 QBs from 1987 to 2018. pic.twitter.com/jpO9kly0r0— Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) February 23, 2022 McGough is athletic for a quarterback, but you have to wonder if the 28-year-old convert will make a dent in the team’s depth chart at receiver with a 4.62-second 40-yard dash time and agility scores that already rank poorly among NFL quarterbacks.
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