Jets announce they’re moving on from Aaron Rodgers

After the information was reported late final week, the Jets have formalized it with an announcement:

They’re shifting on from Aaron Rodgers.

The crew’s new head coach Aaron Glenn and new Common Supervisor Darren Mougey launched a joint assertion saying that the membership met with Rodgers final week and knowledgeable him that he won’t be again in 2025.

“Final week we met with Aaron and shared that our intention was to maneuver in a completely different course at quarterback,” Glenn and Mougey’s assertion reads. “It was vital to have this dialogue now to supply readability and allow every of us the right time to plan for our respective futures. We need to thank him for the management, ardour, and dedication he delivered to the group and need him success shifting ahead.”

Staff proprietor Woody Johnson additionally had an announcement within the crew’s announcement.

“I personally need to thank Aaron for his time on the New York Jets,” Johnson stated. “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 once I look again at his time right here. He’ll all the time be welcome, and I want him solely the very best in no matter he chooses to do subsequent.”

Rodgers performed simply 4 offensive snaps for the Jets in 2023, struggling a torn Achilles within the Week 1 matchup in opposition to the Payments on Monday Evening Soccer. He returned in 2024, enjoying all 17 video games for the membership. However the season ended with a disappointing 5-12 report.

Rodgers, who turned 41 in December, accomplished 63 p.c of his passes for 3,897 yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 2024.

The Jets are prone to launch Rodgers with a post-June 1 designation, spreading out the cap hit.

Pittsburgh is the early betting favourite to land Rodgers, with Las Vegas, San Francisco, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Indianapolis the subsequent groups up. The Rams and Giants are additionally within the combine from a betting odds perspective.