For a while now, Aaron Rodgers has dominated the football headlines. People have wondered what he would decide to do about his future and have been patiently awaiting an answer since he returned from his darkness retreat.
Since that retreat he went on, Aaron Rodgers says that something changed between him and the Green Bay Packers. After the season, they told him that he could take as much time to decide what he wanted to do.
When he left for the retreat, he was leaning heavily toward retirement. During his appearance on The Pay McAfee Show today, Aaron Rodgers revealed that there was a 90 percent chance that he was retiring and a 10 percent chance he would be playing in 2023.
Whatever changed during that time must have been drastic. Not only has Aaron Rodgers decided that he wanted to play, but he concluded that it wouldn’t be with the Packers.
On Wednesday, he let it be known that he is fully expecting to play for the New York Jets during the upcoming season. The writing has been on the wall for a little while now that he would eventually end up in New York, but he made it official during the Pat McAfee Show.
The Jets have been working feverishly in free agency to appease Aaron Rodgers as well. He reportedly provided the team with a list of players he would like them to sign in free agency.
So far, they have signed one of them, wide receiver Allen Lazard. There is still work to do when it comes to wide receivers Randall Cobb and Odell Beckham Jr. and tight end Marcedes Lewis.
Some of those additions would certainly be head-scratching as the Jets have a nice offensive core already in place. Garrett Wilson is the reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year winner while Elijah Moore and Corey Davis are behind him. At tight end, the Jets signed Tyler Conklin and C.J. Uzomah last offseason and drafted Jeremy Ruckert in the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
Finding space for all of Aaron Rodgers’ wish list, especially Beckham, is going to be challenging. But, to move this process along, Joe Douglas will do everything in his power to ensure Aaron Rodgers is with the Jets.
The framework of a trade with the Packers has been reported on for days, but nothing has been official. Green Bay is reportedly seeking two first-round picks, so it will be interesting to see what kind of compensation they actually receive.
