{"id":650398,"date":"2026-05-05T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:03:08","slug":"virginia-tech-legend-to-continue-nfl-career-with-green-bay-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650398\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech legend to continue NFL career with Green Bay Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrod Taylor is one of the greatest offensive players in Virginia Tech history. The 2010 ACC Player of the Year led the Hokies<\/a> to two ACC titles, where he was also a two-time ACC Championship Game MVP. Taylor started 38 games over the course of his Virginia Tech career, finishing with a remarkable 34-4 record.<\/p>\n

Since his college career ended, Taylor has enjoyed a long career as an NFL backup, becoming one of the league\u2019s better backup QBs. He spent four years with the Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, three years with the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, one year with the Cleveland Browns<\/a>, two years with the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, one year with the Houston Texans<\/a>, two years with the New York Giants<\/a>, and the last two seasons with the New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, Taylor has a new team. He will be Jordan Love<\/a>\u2019s backup with the Green Bay Packers<\/a> next season.<\/p>\n

Taylor has appeared in 100 career NFL games, with 62 starts. He has completed 62% of his passes for 13,033 yards, with 73 touchdowns and 34 interceptions. Taylor has also rushed for 434 yards and 20 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Taylor was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame class of 2024.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Tyrod as his NFL journey continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrod Taylor is one of the greatest offensive players in Virginia Tech history. The 2010 ACC Player of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[314571,64,63,631,314572,1261,1238,277631,1216,6587,1243,78309,1255,6582,3052,1242,1235,593,85,70236,20003,66712],"class_list":["post-650398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-acc-championship","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bank-of-america-stadium","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-college-career","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-hokies","tag-houston-texans","tag-jordan-love","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tom-pelissero","tag-tyrod-taylor","tag-virginia-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}