NFL insider Dianna Russini of The Athletic raised eyebrows when she reported on Tuesday that “there is not any one staff that [she’s] listening to that’s, out there, locked in on” pursuing veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers after his divorce from the New York Jets turns into official.
It seems Rodgers is now not ready to listen to from golf equipment.
On Wednesday, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reported that he heard on the NFL mix that “Rodgers has reached out to the” New York Giants.
“The way in which I heard this particular factor,” Florio wrote, “leads me to imagine it’s extra doubtless than not true. It’s unclear whether or not the Giants can be concerned about Rodgers. Sure, he may very well be higher than different choices they’ll have, particularly if he’ll take much less money with a view to stick it a bit of bit (or so much) to the Jets, who didn’t need to preserve him.”
Final week, Rodgers said he seeks “a very good staff” that desires him. That was earlier than Pat Leonard of the New York Each day Information reported on Tuesday that Rodgers “prefers to play for the” Los Angeles Rams in the event that they commerce present QB1 Matthew Stafford to a membership just like the Giants.
Sadly for Rodgers and Large Blue, Rams head coach Sean McVay lately announced his want to proceed working with Stafford by way of no less than the 2025 season. Moreover, Los Angeles seemingly is not in any hurry to commerce Stafford, despite the fact that he is in search of a major pay increase through a restructured deal.
Stafford is signed by way of the 2026 marketing campaign.
Rodgers acknowledged this previous December that he “simply re-did [his] home right here in Jersey” and that his “aim was to play a few more years right here.” In the meantime, marketed “good” groups that would have new beginning quarterbacks this coming September, such because the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings, reportedly have choices apart from Rodgers in thoughts.
On Feb. 14, Steve Helling and Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Put up reported Rodgers “aggressively urged the Jets to stay with him for an additional season or two all through a number of conversations.” The notion exists that Rodgers could have realized there wasn’t a lot of a marketplace for his providers then.
The Giants might signal Rodgers to a team-friendly contract and nonetheless take Miami’s Cam Ward or Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders through the third general choose of the 2025 draft. Then once more, Rodgers might resolve at any level he’d fairly retire than play for a staff in the midst of a rebuild.
