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Aaron Rodgers is jetting disconnected to a caller team.
The longtime Green Bay Packers quarterback has been traded to the New York Jets, a source with cognition of the presumption confirmed to The New York Times on April 24. The determination concludes Rodgers' 18-year past with the Packers, which began successful 2005 erstwhile helium was drafted by the NFL team.
Rodgers archetypal shared his volition to permission during a March 15 interrogation on The Pat McAfee Show. "I haven't been holding thing up astatine this point," helium said connected the show. "It's been compensation that the Packers are trying to get for maine and benignant of digging their heels in."
Amid the waiting period, Rodgers noted that helium was taking a measurement backmost and sending emotion and gratitude to Green Bay.
During his clip arsenic Packers quarterback, Rodgers led the squad to a Super Bowl triumph successful 2011 with a compelling triumph against the Pittsburgh Steelers. As rumors astir his imaginable departure to the Jets swirled successful March, Rodgers addressed the speech but kept choky connected details.
"Stay tuned … I deliberation it won't beryllium long," helium said successful a March 12 quality connected the I AM ATHLETE podcast. "There's a clip bounds for each this."
He besides shared a spot of penetration into his gathering with Jets owner Woody Johnson, which occurred connected March 7, according to the New York Post.
"It's ever absorbing gathering important figures successful the sport. Yeah it's ever interesting," helium added. "That's each I'm giving you."
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The 39-year-old besides broached the taxable aft finishing a acheronian retreat successful February, wherever helium isolated himself from the extracurricular world, per ESPN.
"There's a finality to the decision. I don't marque it lightly," helium said connected the Aubrey Marcus Podcast March 1. "I don't privation to resistance anybody around. Look, I'm answering questions astir it due to the fact that I got asked astir it. I'm talking astir it due to the fact that it's important to me. If you don't similar it and you deliberation it's drama, you deliberation I'm being a diva oregon whatever, past conscionable tune it out."
He continued, "That's fine. But this is my life. It's important to me, and I'll marque a determination soon capable and we'll spell down that roadworthy and beryllium truly excited astir it."
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Previously, Rodgers signed a four-year declaration with the Packers successful March 2022. Although reports emerged that it was a $200 cardinal contract, Rodgers aboriginal acceptable the grounds consecutive connected Twitter.
"YES I volition beryllium playing with the @packers adjacent year, however, reports astir maine signing a declaration are inaccurate, arsenic are the expected presumption of the declaration I 'signed'," helium wrote. "I'm precise excited to beryllium back."
Outside of football, the NFL prima dated Shailene Woodley, but the brace separated and ended their engagement successful February 2022. He is reportedly present successful a narration with Mallory Edens, per People.
His commercialized was archetypal reported by ESPN.
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