NFL insider Dianna Russini of The Athletic dropped a bombshell when she reported this previous weekend that quarterback Aaron Rodgers “nonetheless needs to play in 2025, simply not for the New York Jets.”
Throughout a Tuesday look on “The Pat McAfee Present,” Rodgers denied that declare and mentioned the Jets can be his “first possibility” if he decides to proceed enjoying past the 2024 marketing campaign.
Rodgers reportedly has been slowed by accidents to each his knees, a low ankle sprain and a hamstring difficulty this fall.
It stays to be seen if Jets proprietor Woody Johnson will need Rodgers to stay round past Week 18. Johnson fired head coach Robert Saleh earlier this season after which parted methods with basic supervisor Joe Douglas in the course of the membership’s bye week. Multiple reporters have since prompt a brand new Jets regime will “desire a change at quarterback,” and
some think Rodgers might wrestle to discover a totally different staff if he turns into obtainable when the brand new league 12 months opens in March 2025.
The Jets can afford to designate Rodgers as a post-June 1 reduce subsequent 12 months and break up his salary-cap hits throughout the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
Rodgers basically missed all of final season due to a torn Achilles and has been a below-average starter, statistically talking, all through the continuing marketing campaign. Per Pro Football Reference, the longer term Corridor of Famer started Tuesday ranked twenty sixth within the NFL with a 51.4 whole QBR, twenty first with an 88.9 passer ranking and twenty second with a 43.8% passing success fee. Moreover, Rodgers has been accused of negatively impacting the Jets’ locker room because the staff fell to 3-8 this fall.
Rodgers is on track to start out when New York hosts the 6-5 Seattle Seahawks this coming Sunday. Whereas it appears like he needs to stay within the lineup via the regular-season finale so long as he is wholesome, Johnson presumably might shut Rodgers down if the Jets endure their ninth lack of the marketing campaign.
