The New York Jets’ transient and sad Aaron Rodgers period is over after the crew informed him they’re shifting on at quarterback.
Experiences had emerged final week the crew have 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 path at quarterback,” head coach Aaron Glenn and common supervisor Darren Mougey mentioned in an announcement. “It was essential to have this dialogue now to supply readability and allow every of us the correct time to plan for our respective futures. We wish to thank him for the management, ardour, and dedication he delivered to the group and need him success shifting ahead.”
Rodgers joined the Jets in 2023 with many believing his veteran expertise might take a gifted younger crew to the following stage. 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 report, fired their head coach, have been dogged by reviews that proprietor Woody Johnson’s teenage son Brick had a say in crew choices 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 mentioned Rodgers “embodied” the Jets, an outline that could possibly be learn various other ways, given the crew’s report during the last decade.
“I personally wish to thank Aaron for his time on the New York Jets,” Johnson mentioned in an announcement. “His arrival in 2023 was met with unbridled pleasure and I’ll endlessly 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 have been a stark distinction to his profession with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, the place he received a Tremendous Bowl and constructed a fame as one of the crucial gifted quarterbacks in NFL historical past.
The long run is murky for each Rodgers and the Jets. Rodgers is way faraway from the quarterback who was as soon as essentially 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 important expertise as a starter. They’re unlikely to discover a resolution with the No 7 decide on this yr’s draft, which isn’t thought-about a robust class for quarterbacks.
