Tag: Aaron Rodgers trade

Silver lining for Jets with Aaron Rodgers injury is being able to keep first-round pick in 2024

A silver lining in New York?

The Jets have likely lost quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the season with a torn Achilles. An MRI on Tuesday will confirm the injury, but head coach Robert Saleh didn’t beat around the bush. There is no optimism that he will be back this season.

So Rodgers is gone and the Jets now have to roll with Zach Wilson at quarterback for the rest of the season. But there is a silver lining to all of this besides the fact that the Jets were able to go out and get the victory over the Buffalo Bills in overtime to start 1-0. New York will have a first-round pick in 2024. Not that the Jets wanted it to happen this way, but they will.

When the Jets acquired Rodgers from the Green Bay Packers in April, among the package of picks going back to the Packers was a conditional second-round pick in 2024 that could become a first-round pick. The condition was that if Rodgers played 65% of the offensive snaps, New York would send a first-round pick to Green Bay.

Rodgers wound up playing a grand total of four offensive snaps. Clearly, he won’t hit the 65% threshold. As a result, the Packers will get a second-round pick next year while the Jets will keep their first-round pick. So the package ends up being two second-round picks and the pick swap from this year where the Jets went from No. 13 to No. 15. The Packers took Iowa edge Lukas Van Ness while the Jets took Iowa State edge Will McDonald.

The price however for not having to send a first was now having to wait until 2024 to see Rodgers play a full game with the Jets.

Why the 49ers share blame in Aaron Rodgers going to the Jets

Part of the Green Bay Packers’ recent matchups with the San Francisco 49ers influenced Aaron Rodgers to ultimately choose the New York Jets.

There were a multiplicity of factors that led to the Green Bay Packers agreeing to trade quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets.

Who had the San Francisco 49ers as being a reason?

Rodgers referenced coach Robert Saleh and his work as defensive coordinator with the 49ers from 2017-20 as being one of the factors that attracted him to New York.

“We got to practice against them a couple years ago and I got to know Robert a little bit more and I’ve always loved what he’s all about,” Rodgers told reporters at his introductory presser Wednesday. “We played him in San Fran a few times and, mostly, they got the best of us, but I liked the way he was leading, his coaching style.”

The Packers were able to eek out a 33-30 win over the 49ers in 2018 at Lambeau Field. However, San Francisco dominated Green Bay in the 2019 regular season bout, 37-8 at Levi’s Stadium. In the 2019 NFC Championship Game, the 49ers busted the visiting Packers 37-20 as Rodgers didn’t get Green Bay on the board until 8:44 to go in the third quarter. The 49ers were already leading 27-0 by that point.

Green Bay got the last laugh against Saleh as the 49ers’ defensive coordinator in 2020, doubling up San Francisco 34-17 in a Thursday nighter at Levi’s Stadium. But Saleh made an impression in 2022 as the coach of the Jets with New York beating the Packers 27-10 at Lambeu Field in Week 6.

Rodgers sees himself as an elder on the team, despite being a high profile acquisition for the organization.

“I’m an old guy, so, I want to be part of a team that can win it all,” Rodgers said. “I believe that this is a place we can get that done.”

Perhaps history would have been different if the Packers had beaten the 49ers at least once in 2019.

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Joe Douglas calls Aaron Rodgers deal a ‘historic trade’ for franchise

A “historic trade” for the Jets

The Jets made good on their goal to acquire quarterback Aaron Rodgers from the Green Bay Packers in a franchise-altering move for the team that sets the team up for what they hope is a potential Super Bowl run in 2023.

Not only is it a game-changing trade for the Jets, but in the eyes of general manager Joe Douglas, this is a “historic trade” for the franchise and “a long time in the making.”

The Jets saw their opportunity to find a veteran quarterback that they feel can help lead them to the promised land with a roster that is ready to win now and Rodgers was their target throughout the entire process. They hardly even dipped anywhere in the quarterback market. They did meet with Derek Carr a couple of times including in Indianapolis during the Scouting Combine, but made it clear even to Carr himself that he was always their second choice behind Rodgers.

New York wanted Rodgers, they zeroed in on him from the beginning and now the Jets have their biggest quarterback in a long, long time. And it was a long time for this to work out. It had been over a month since Rodgers told Pat McAfee that his intention was to play for the Jets in 2023. It was a gauntlet but the deal reached the finish line.

If everything works out, this trade could be just the start of the history-making for the Jets.

4-Down Territory: The biggest questions for the 2023 NFL draft

In this week’s “4-Down Territory,” Kyle Madson and Doug Farrar get into the four most important questions as we near the 2023 NFL draft. 

In this week’s “4-Down Territory,” Kyle Madson of Niners Wire and Doug Farrar of Touchdown Wire get into the four most important questions as we near the 2023 NFL draft.

  1. Do the Houston Texans HAVE to take a quarterback with the second overall pick?
  2. Is Texas running back Bijan Robinson worthy of a top-five pick, regardless of positional value?
  3. Beyond Aaron Rodgers, how many current NFL quarterbacks will be taken before (or during) the draft?
  4. Who are our underrated prospects who will make big impacts on their NFL teams, regardless of their Day 2 or Day 3 status?

You can watch this week’s episode of “4-Down Territory” right here:

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Four new mock drafts following Packers trade of Aaron Rodgers

Three-round mock drafts from the Packers Wire staff following the Aaron Rodgers trade to the Jets.

The Green Bay Packers moved up two spots in the first round and acquired a second-round pick from the New York Jets as part of the trade that is sending Aaron Rodgers to New York.

The Packers now have three top-50 picks and four top-100 picks to use in the 2023 draft, which begins this week. Can Brian Gutekunst use the valuable picks to begin building up his team around Jordan Love?

Here are four new three-mock drafts for the Packers, one each from the staff at Packers Wire, all using the PFF simulator:

Winners and a loser of Aaron Rodgers trade

Winners from the Rodgers trade

After a long wait, the Jets and Packers have finally agreed to a trade that sends quarterback Aaron Rodgers to New York and involves multiple picks moving around that ultimately boils down to the Jets sending a first and a second to Green Bay.

The bottom line is the Jets have their man and are ready to make a run in 2023. So who made out in this trade? Let’s talk about some winners and a loser (you can probably guess who that is) from this trade.

2023 NFL Mock Draft: First-round projections after the Aaron Rodgers trade

How might the first round of the 2023 NFL draft play out after the Aaron Rodgers trade? Let’s mock it through!

Well, now we know. After nearly two decades with the same team, the Green Bay Packers offloaded their quarterback to the New York Jets, and moved on to their recent first-round draft pick before his rookie contract expired.

But enough about Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. Let’s talk about Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love! On Monday, the Packers traded Rodgers to the Jets for a swap of the 13th and 15th picks in the 2023 draft in Green Bay’s favor, as well as the Jets’ 43rd pick and 207th pick in this draft, as well as a conditional second-round pick in 20234 that turns into a first-round pick if Rodgers plays at least 65% of the Jets’ snaps in 2023. The Jets also get Green Bay’s 170th pick in this draft.

It’s a big haul for the Packers, and now, for the first time since 1991, they get to deal with the same level of quarterback uncertainty that most other NFL teams have had to deal with most of the time.

We don’t really know which version of Rodgers the Jets are getting — he turns 40 on December 2, and his 2022 season was far from his best. But the trade has happened, and here’s how the first round of the 2023 draft might play out as a result.

The Bears and their fans enthusiastically celebrated Aaron Rodgers’ departure from the NFC North

Aaron Rodgers’ days of owning Chicago have come to an end.

Aaron Rodgers’ days in the NFC North have come to an end.

After 18 seasons, the Green Bay Packers finally ended his trade saga on Monday afternoon, officially shipping him off to the New York Jets in return for some draft capital. While many fans were relieved to see a resolution to the process, which has been ongoing for more than a month.

But for the Chicago Bears and their supporters, the celebration was for an entirely different reason: Rodgers’ nearly two decades of tormenting the city and its team are finally at an end.

The quarterback boasts an all-time record of 24-5 against the bitter division rival, and he’s suffered just one loss in the series since 2015. During a game against Chicago in 2021, Rodgers even went so far as to yell “I own you!” at the hostile Bears crowd after running for a touchdown in the 24-14 win.

The official team account took to Twitter with a hilarious gif of a bear waving goodbye to Rodgers’ departure from the division on Monday.

Bears fans couldn’t help but join in the party as they’ve finally awoken from their nightmare.

Aaron Rodgers’ 2022 season presents an unclear picture of his future potential

What version of Aaron Rodgers are the Jets getting? The 2022 tape paints a surprisingly muddy picture.

Now that the New York Jets have finalized the trade with the Green Bay Packers that gives them Aaron Rodgers, Gang Green has — in theory, at least — the greatest quarterback in franchise history. Although, with apologies to everyone from Joe Namath to Richard Todd to Mark Sanchez… well, it’s a pretty low bar. The Jets are not a team noted for great quarterback play, and the thought here is that the current team is set up everywhere else for a deep playoff run, and Rodgers just puts them over the top.

Hypothetically, that is absolutely the case. Rodgers at his peak was the best pure thrower of the football I’ve ever seen, and his peak lasted quite a while. He was doing stuff in the early parts of the 2010s that bordered on optical illusion, and given what the Jets are spending on this deal, they clearly believe he’s still got more than enough in the tank at age 39 (he’ll turn 40 on December 2), to do what Tom Brady did in the 2020 season and Matthew Stafford did the next year — become the final addition on a team ready for the Lombardi Trophy.

That’s great in theory. What we are dealing with in Rodgers’ 2022 season are numbers that are well below what he have come to expect. Rodgers completed 350 of 542 passes for 3,695 yards, 26 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, and a passer rating of 91.1. That’s his fifth-lowest completion rate (64.6%) over his career as a starter since 2008. It’s his third-lowest touchdown rate (4.8%), his fourth-highest interception rate (2.2%), his lowest Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt (5.95), and his lowest passer rating.

Of course, we’re talking about a “bad” season from one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, so the Jets would take that every day, and several times every Sunday. But when we look at Rodgers’ future, even with a good team, it’s worth diving into the tape to see exactly where he is at this point in his career, and what he still has to offer.

Jets finally acquire Aaron Rodgers, swap first-round picks

The wait is finally over

The wait is finally over. The Jets have acquired Aaron Rodgers.

Per Adam Schefter, the terms of the deal include the Jets getting Rodgers and a 5th-round pick this year (No. 170 overall), while the Packers will get a second-round pick (No. 42 overall), a 6th-round pick (No. 207 overall) and a conditional second-round pick in 2024 that becomes a first if Rodgers plays 65 percent of the plays.

The teams will also swap picks in the first round, meaning the Packers will now have the No. 13 pick and the Jets will pick at No. 15.

Talks heated back up this week with the draft looming. Now the Jets finally have their top quarterback while the Packers pick up an extra second round pick and potentially get a first next year.