NEW YORK — Aaron Rodgers will reportedly now not go back to the New York Jets in 2025.
According to CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones, the Jets and Rodgers will quickly cross their separate techniques, a transfer that might permit the four-time NFL MVP to be eligible to signal with every other workforce as soon as the brand new NFL yr starts in March, equipped he makes a decision he needs to go back for a twenty first season.
The verdict to transport on from Rodgers is not all that sudden taking into consideration the Jets lately finished a regime trade that featured the hiring of head coach Aaron Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey, with many figuring the brand new hierarchy would wish a recent get started.
All the way through their twin introductory press convention on Jan. 27, Glenn and Mougey lauded Rodgers, however stopped wanting pronouncing definitively they sought after him again.
Glenn mentioned on the time that textual content messages were exchanged. Then closing week, the organization reportedly met with Rodgers and instructed him of its intentions. The Jets also recently hired former Detroit Lions passing game coordinator Tanner Engstrand as offensive coordinator, and it is believed they’ll make use of a brand new philosophy on that aspect of the ball subsequent season.
Glenn has mentioned the Jets are going to guage each participant and positional want. Now apparently they have got an enormous hollow to fill at quarterback, an important place at the box.
After Rodgers is launched, the Jets will handiest have 35-year-old journeyman Tyrod Taylor and 2024 fifth-round select Jordan Travis, who neglected all of the season because of damage, at the roster. Neither figures to be the starter going ahead.
So it is going to be at the new guys calling the pictures to discover a appropriate alternative for Rodgers who can assist the Jets finish their 14-year playoff drought, the longest present run of ineptitude some of the 4 primary North American skilled sports activities leagues.
Proprietor Woody Johnson has mentioned he’ll defer to Mougey and Glenn on all team of workers choices.
Aaron Rodgers’ 2024 season
Coming off an Achilles damage that sidelined him for all but four plays of the 2023 season, the large worry for Rodgers getting into this previous season was once sturdiness, and for probably the most section he handed the entire assessments. He did play via some lower-body accidents unrelated to the Achilles, however not anything that any older NFL participant hasn’t skilled prior to.
He began all 17 video games and quietly put in combination a cast season, each by way of his lofty requirements and the Jets’ in most cases low requirements on the place.
Rodgers, who has thrown for a minimum of 4,000 yards in 10 of his 20 seasons within the NFL, finished 63% of his passes for three,897 yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Within the annals of Jets historical past, handiest Joe Namath (4,007 in 14 video games in 1967) and Ryan Fitzpatrick (3,905 in 16 video games in 2015) threw for extra yards in a season, and handiest Fitzpatrick (31 in 2015) and Vinny Testaverde (29 in 1998) threw extra TDs.
The spotlight for Rodgers was once throwing 4 TD passes — Nos. 500, 501, 502 and 503 of his soon-to-be Corridor of Status occupation — right through the Jets’ season-ending 32-20 win over the Miami Dolphins.
However there have been repeatedly right through the season when the Jets’ offense seemed as dangerous because it did prior to Rodgers arrived, frequently stalling out within the crimson zone and settling for box function makes an attempt as a substitute of scoring touchdowns. And that was once mirrored in New York’s report, because the Jets completed 5-12, however misplaced seven video games by way of six issues or much less.
Total, the Jets completed twenty fourth in general offense — 310.3 yards in step with sport — and tied for twenty fourth in issues in step with sport — 19.9.
The arrival of Davante Adams in a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders in mid-October gave Rodgers every other extremely professional receiver to throw to, and the rapport the 2 had evolved right through their 8 years in combination in Inexperienced Bay was once obviously obvious because the season stepped forward. Adams was once centered a whopping 114 occasions in 11 video games, completing with 67 receptions, 854 yards, and seven TDs with the Jets and 85-1,063-8 general.
Alternatively, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, the Jets’ different most sensible wideout, did not at all times appear to be at the similar web page. Whilst Wilson did finish the season with a team-high 154 objectives, he handiest cracked 100 yards in a sport 4 occasions and his 1,104 yards have been only one greater than his earlier occupation excessive, set as a rookie in 2022, when Rodgers wasn’t at the roster.
The industry that introduced Aaron Rodgers to the Jets
After weeks of posturing on each side, the Jets and Green Bay Packers completed a trade on April 24, 2023 that sent Rodgers to New York.
The Jets additionally gained the No. 15 general select and a fifth-round select in that yr’s draft. The Packers gained the No. 13 general select, a second-round select and a sixth-round select, plus what grew to become out to be a 2024 second-round select, after Rodgers did not play 65% of the performs in 2023 because of his season-ending damage in Week 1 towards the Buffalo Expenses.
The deal had many thinking the Jets had a real chance to at the very least end what was at the time a 12-year playoff drought. However following Rodgers’ Achilles tear, the Jets limped to a 7-10 end, the similar report that they had the season prior to they traded for him.
Coming in to the 2024 season, with Rodgers totally wholesome and the Jets recent off an offseason of 1 affect transfer after every other, some whispered about them having an actual shot to get to the Tremendous Bowl.
However, clearly, that by no means got here with regards to materializing. The Jets are actually dealing with an offseason of what’s going to most likely be more-than-usual roster turnover.
