Aaron Rodgers Could Be Heading To The Jets As Packers Consider A Trade

Is Aaron Rodgers following successful Brett Favre‘s footsteps? Favre, 53, joined the New York Jets aft coming retired of status successful 2008, and it seems that Rodgers, 39, mightiness beryllium the adjacent Green Bay Quarterback to ditch the Cheeseheads for “Gang Green.” Months aft Rodgers admitted that his existent declaration with the Packers isn’t viable for Green Bay, sports writer Trey Wingo tweeted connected Mar. 7 that “per sources, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets had conversations today. While thing is imminent, Rodgers is unfastened to the thought of going to New York.” (h/t The NY Post).

The NFL Free Agency play doesn’t unfastened until Mar. 15, and The Post‘s Brian Costello noted that if Wingo’s connection were true, it “would mean GB [Green Bay] gave the Jets support to talk with Rodgers, oregon it would beryllium tampering.” Aaron has played with Green Bay since the 2005 season, starring the squad to Super Bowl glory successful 2011.

(Kirsten Schmitt/CSM/Shutterstock)

Aaron Rodgers’ existent woody with Green Bay means helium has $59.465 cardinal guaranteed if helium plays successful 2023, per ESPN. This is portion of the three-year, $150 cardinal declaration hold helium signed successful March 2022. It carries a salary-cap complaint of $31,623,570 for adjacent season, which puts Green Bay down the 8 shot successful securing talent. It’s imaginable for the squad to commercialized Aaron, but it’s not great  — due to the fact that Green Bay would beryllium stuck with, arsenic ESPN enactment it, “massive amounts of dormant wealth connected their wage cap.”

Rodgers acknowledged this during a January occurrence of The Pat McAfee Show. “There’s a batch of teams, due to the fact that of COVID, that are strapped, and you’re seeing with a batch of antithetic contracts, they’re pushing much wealth retired successful deals,” said Rodgers, per ESPN. “They’re creating void years to let for an easier headdress hit, truthful determination would person to beryllium immoderate adjustments, for sure.”

In the Summer of 2022, Rogers said helium planned to decorativeness his vocation successful Green Bay, but during the Pat McAfee appearance, helium was unfastened to being traded. ” “I anticipation there’s immoderate gratitude connected some sides if that happens,” helium said. “But again, that doesn’t unfastened the doorway for immoderate conjecture, honestly, connected my side. And I’m not saying that to beryllium cryptic. I’ve got to fig retired what I privation to do, and past we’ll spot wherever each the parties astatine and what benignant of transpires aft that.”

Brett Favre arsenic a Jet (Kirsten Schmitt/CSM/Shutterstock)

The concern echoes what happened with Brett Favre successful 2008. Favre announced his status successful March 2008, but that July, helium petitioned the NFL to undo his determination (ultimately, pulling a Tom Brady more than a decennary before Brady made the aforesaid move.) The Packers decided it was clip for them and Favre to spell their abstracted ways and traded him to the Jets.

“He was the eventual rental,” wrote Rich Cimini for ESPN successful 2016, erstwhile Favre was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “A hired gunslinger who landed with the Jets due to the fact that helium had nary different options. He teased the instrumentality basal with an 8-3 start, but his limb gave out, and everything fell apart, creating conscionable different ‘what mightiness person been’ section successful Jets’ history.” During his clip astatine MetLife Stadium, Favre seemed rejuvenated – writer Danny Heifetz penned the 2018 nonfiction “Brett Favre Was Better With The Jets Than You May Remember” – but aft tearing his biceps, the squad fell apart. The Jets failed to marque the playoffs, and Favre signed connected to play for the Minnesota Vikings until helium retired for bully successful 2011.

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