{"id":17848,"date":"2024-11-20T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17848"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:40:36","slug":"jets-likely-to-move-on-from-aaron-rodgers-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17848","title":{"rendered":"Jets Likely To Move On From Aaron Rodgers In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This wildly disappointing Jets season has brought a gradual housecleaning, with Joe Douglas<\/strong>\u2018 exit the latest such move<\/a>. The team\u2019s attempt to load up its roster around Aaron Rodgers<\/a><\/strong> over the past two years has not worked, and the four-time MVP may soon be on his way out as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As the Jets are seeing their second blockbuster trade for a longtime Packers QB great fail, they are staring at perhaps another reset \u2014 albeit with some solid young pieces in place. Rodgers, who will turn 41 in December, may be more likely than not to be elsewhere once that overhaul commences.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: Jeff Ulbrich Considering Play-Calling Change]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing may be concrete just yet, but in the wake of the Douglas firing, SNY\u2019s Connor Hughes reports<\/a> the Jets would prefer to move on from Rodgers as well. Going further, a source told ESPN.com\u2019s Rich Cimini<\/a> it would be a \u201cshock\u201d if Rodgers was a Jet next year. Rodgers and Douglas shared a good relationship, Cimini adds<\/a>, and the QB has advocated for interim HC Jeff Ulbrich<\/strong>. With a restart coming, the sides severing ties appears likely.<\/p>\n

This news comes not long after a report indicated Rodgers\u2019 post-2024 New York future was up in the air<\/a>. Davante Adams<\/a><\/strong> expressed some rumored hesitation about Rodgers\u2019 Big Apple future<\/a> beyond this season; now, the All-Pro wideout is tied to a Jets team in transition. A separation might be mutual, as Rodgers has sought more stability than the Jets have provided.<\/p>\n

Rodgers said recently he is leaning toward playing in 2025<\/a>; this came months after the then-rehabbing QB said he was open to playing into his mid-40s<\/a>. Based on his play this season, that seems unlikely to happen. While it would not be too hard to see teams pursuing him next year, the ex-Green Bay icon has not come remotely close to following in Peyton Manning<\/a><\/strong> and Tom Brady<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s footsteps in terms of success with a second team. Rodgers sits 24th in QBR and has not shown much of his early-2020s MVP form. Considering Rodgers did not fare too well in his final Green Bay season, it is worth wondering what a market would be for a 41-year-old quarterback not too far removed from Achilles surgery.<\/p>\n

The Jets swapped first-round picks with the Packers for Rodgers in the April 2023 deal \u2014 in a trade that also saw two second-round picks going to the Packers \u2014 but sit 3-8 in the 20th-year veteran\u2019s comeback season. Rodgers kept himself in headlines throughout last season by teasing a return from the Achilles tear, doing so despite the Jets struggling with Zach Wilson<\/a><\/strong> back at the helm. No comeback commenced, but Rodgers-generated headlines followed into the offseason.<\/p>\n

The increasingly outspoken passer all but forced the Jets to retain Nathaniel Hackett<\/strong> as OC this offseason, despite Robert Saleh<\/strong> conducting a stealth push to curb the play-caller\u2019s power by bringing in an assistant<\/a>. With no title to offer, Saleh did not end up hiring a veteran to help\/oversee Hackett, and Rodgers vouched again for the embattled assistant<\/a>. Saleh planned to demote Hackett, and interim HC Ulbrich ultimately did. Todd Downing<\/strong>\u2018s transition to the play-calling role has not moved the needle. The Jets rank 26th in scoring and total offense; with Gang Green\u2019s defense also regressing this season, the team is 1-5 under Ulbrich.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When the Jets separated from Brett Favre<\/strong> in 2009, they relinquished his rights due to a poison-pill provision effectively preventing the team from trading the future Hall of Famer to the Vikings. Favre ended up in Minnesota as a free agent, unretiring a second time. Rodgers teased retirement during his final Packers years and famously said he was 90% retired before his 2023 darkness retreat. Rodgers then OK\u2019d a Jets trade, but the results have burned the downtrodden AFC East franchise, which brought in several of Rodgers\u2019 former Packers teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n

Due to signing bonus proration and void years on a 2023 Rodgers reworking<\/a>, a $49MM dead cap hit would come if the Jets released him in 2025. This could be trimmed to just $14MM in the event of a post-June 1 cut. Even though the Broncos blazed new territory for dead money by cutting Russell Wilson<\/a><\/strong> (to bring more than $83MM over two years) and the Browns are staring at an unfathomable $170MM-plus bill if they drop Deshaun Watson<\/a><\/strong> next year, a $49MM cap penalty is still notable. The Packers ate $40.3MM by trading Rodgers last year, with the Falcons\u2019 2022 Matt Ryan<\/a><\/strong> trade standing as the single-player record ($40.5MM) before the Broncos\u2019 decision.<\/p>\n

The Jets rolled with rookie-contract quarterbacks primarily in between Favre and Rodgers. Zach Wilson<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s struggles prompted Woody Johnson<\/strong> to spend for Rodgers to chase course, but the franchise is close to giving up here. It will obviously be interesting to see where the Jets go if\/when they move on from Rodgers, who would profile as a boom-or-bust bet as a high-profile stopgap in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n