{"id":81764,"date":"2025-08-19T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81764\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:00:08","slug":"canadian-qb-taylor-elgersma-has-made-third-string-qb-competition-with-sean-clifford-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81764\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian QB Taylor Elgersma has made third-string QB competition with Sean Clifford ‘interesting’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo courtesy: Evan Siegle\/Packers.com<\/p>\n

Canadian quarterback Taylor Elgersma continues to compete with veteran Sean Clifford for the third-string role with the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

Elgersma played more than Clifford in the team\u2019s second preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium this past weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of wanting to see more of what Taylor can do. That was the mindset of Saturday \u2014 let\u2019s get him out there and see what he\u2019s about,\u201d offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich, who called the plays, explained post-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Sean a lot, but it\u2019s also let\u2019s see what Taylor does with the bulk of the backup reps. Both those guys went out there and competed and led touchdown drives. It\u2019s going to be interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Clifford has spent two seasons with Green Bay after being selected in the fifth round, 149th overall by the Packers in the 2023 NFL Draft. Clifford was the primary backup in his rookie year and then spent most of the 2024 season on the practice squad. He completed one-of-four passes for 11 yards while rushing three times for 19 yards including the game-winning touchdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean went in and did what he had to do. He led us down on a touchdown drive and used his legs in some critical moments, a fourth-down scramble and the touchdown run. I thought there was some good things there,\u201d head coach Matt LaFleur said.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Elgersma was signed as an undrafted free agent in May. The Wilfrid Laurier University product completed 7-of-11 passes for 109 yards while rushing one time for four yards. He led three scoring drives, two resulted in touchdowns and one a field goal in five possessions. Emanuel Wilson lost a fumble and Green Bay punted after Elgersma was sacked on another drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was some really good moments that he had in showing the ability to progress and\u00a0then there was a couple that he forced in there. The touchdown to Ben Sims that didn\u2019t\u00a0count, we can\u2019t throw that ball. Then he had the one that got picked off, that got called back\u00a0for a face mask, you can\u2019t throw that ball,\u201d\u00a0LaFleur said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor his first I would call extended\u00a0action, I thought there was some really good moments and then also some things that you have\u00a0to learn from. But he\u2019s still getting used to the field\u00a0dimensions out there from Canada. Taylor, he likes contact. He wasn\u2019t about to slide. I saw him pushing the pile on [Amar Johnson\u2019s]\u00a0touchdown run. He\u2019s got to learn to be a little bit smarter, I would say, in that regard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old LaFleur was asked what he\u2019s looking for in his third-string quarterback.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody who can command the offence,\u201d he said. \u201cYou want somebody\u00a0that you can develop into \u2014 hopefully \u2014 a guy that can play for you someday. You want to see that level of consistency within every position, but in particular\u00a0the quarterback position that\u2019s so critical to the success of the offence. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Packers play the team\u2019s third and final preseason game at 4 p.m. EDT on Saturday at Lambeau Field against the Seattle Seahawks. How Elgersma and Clifford perform could go a long way in determining who wins the third-string quarterback role in Green Bay.<\/p>\n

Prior to 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 26,\u00a0each NFL team must cut rosters down to 53 players<\/a>. Following a waiver claim period that ends at noon EDT on Wednesday, August 27, franchises can establish a 17-player practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Evan Siegle\/Packers.com Canadian quarterback Taylor Elgersma continues to compete with veteran Sean Clifford for the third-string…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-81764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}