Young Packers receivers have mixed night after Aaron Rodgers criticism

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers ripped into some of the team’s young receivers for poor effort in practice this week and his comments seemed to hit home with fifth-round pick Marquez Valdes-Scantling.
Valdes-Scantling wasn’t singled out by Rodgers, but he wasn’t one of the three receivers who the quarterback praised so it doesn’t take much to read between the lines.
Valdes-Scantling caught five passes for 101 yards and a touchdown against the Titans on Thursday night and said after the game that he took what Rodgers, who didn’t play, said to heart.
“That’s our quarterback,” Valdes-Scantling said, via ESPN.com.
But you know when the leader says you’ve got to pick it up, that’s what you do.
Jake Kumerow, who did get a positive review, had three catches for 76 yards and a touchdown, but fourth-round pick J’Mon Moore wasn’t quite as sharp.
He dropped a couple of passes over the course of the evening.
“My whole life has been about how you finish things.
Just take it day by day and move forward.
Definitely going put a fire up underneath me, so I’m going to move forward for sure, but it’s definitely going to put a fire up underneath me and definitely have me dig deeper.” The group will get another chance to make an impression against the Steelers next Thursday.