The New York Jets’ transient and sad Aaron Rodgers period is over after the crew informed him they’re transferring on at quarterback.
Stories had emerged final week the crew had been parting methods with Rodgers and the Jets confirmed the information on Thursday.
“Final week we met with Aaron and shared that our intention was to maneuver in a special course at quarterback,” head coach Aaron Glenn and common supervisor Darren Mougey stated in a press release. “It was essential to have this dialogue now to offer readability and allow every of us the right time to plan for our respective futures. We wish to thank him for the management, ardour, and dedication he dropped at the group and need him success transferring ahead.”
Rodgers joined the Jets in 2023 with many believing his veteran expertise might take a gifted younger crew to the subsequent degree. However his marketing campaign ended on the primary drive of the primary recreation of the season when he tore his achilles tendon. The 41-year-old returned for 2024 however the Jets slumped to a 5-12 file, fired their head coach, had been dogged by stories that proprietor Woody Johnson’s teenage son Brick had a say in crew selections and missed the playoffs for a 14th successive season. Rodgers’s QBR of 48.1 ranked him twenty fifth amongst certified NFL quarterbacks.
In his farewell assertion to Rodgers, Johnson stated Rodgers “embodied” the Jets, an outline that could possibly be learn numerous alternative ways, given the crew’s file over the past decade.
“I personally wish to thank Aaron for his time on the New York Jets,” Johnson stated in a press release. “His arrival in 2023 was met with unbridled pleasure and I’ll eternally be grateful that he selected to hitch us to proceed his Corridor of Fame profession. From day one, he embodied all that it meant to be a New York Jet, embraced our followers, and immersed himself in our metropolis. That’s what I’ll keep in mind most after I look again at his time right here. He’ll at all times be welcome, and I want him solely the perfect in no matter he chooses to do subsequent.”
Rodgers’s struggles with the Jets had been a stark distinction to his profession with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, the place he gained a Tremendous Bowl and constructed a popularity as probably the most gifted quarterbacks in NFL historical past.
The longer term is murky for each Rodgers and the Jets. Rodgers is way faraway from the quarterback who was as soon as probably the most feared within the NFL, and he has indicated he might select to retire. The Jets are left with the 35-year-old Tyrod Taylor as the one quarterback on their roster with any vital expertise as a starter. They’re unlikely to discover a answer with the No 7 choose on this yr’s draft, which isn’t thought of a powerful class for quarterbacks.
