With the calendar turning to June, Aaron Rodgers nonetheless hasn’t chosen a workforce–– and he’s now speaking retirement procedures as an alternative of signing on a dotted line.
Throughout an look with Mike Stud on the “YNK Podcast”, Rodgers was requested if he was planning to retire as a member of the Packers as soon as his profession is over.
This often entails signing a one-day contract with a workforce earlier than calling it quits.
“I’ve thought of that, however I don’t perceive what the explanation for that’s,” Rodgers mentioned. “On the identical time, I grew up a [49ers] fan and most of my favourite gamers retired as a Niner. Jerry Rice, who went to 3 different groups, got here again and retired as a Niner, so I perceive the cool factor about it, but when I didn’t do it, would that make a distinction in how I’m seen within the Packers’ eyes?”
Rodgers, 41, didn’t finish issues with the Packers on easy phrases, constantly taking photographs on the entrance workplace for its mishandling of his former teammates and infrequently taking the long-term method over short-term strikes that would have higher aided sure Tremendous Bowl pushes.
Nonetheless, Rodgers would take into account signing with the Packers yet one more time.
“There’s a number of love for me and the way I really feel in regards to the workforce,” Rodgers mentioned. “If I do or I don’t [retire as a Packer], I don’t assume it ought to make a distinction, I’m unsure but. In the event that they approached me about it, I most likely would.”
Inexperienced Bay traded Rodgers to the Jets in April 2023 after he demanded a commerce in trade for a conditional draft choose that was a second-round choice after he tore his Achilles within the Jets’ season opener in opposition to the Payments throughout that marketing campaign.
Rodgers spent two seasons with the Jets earlier than they launched him after a down 2024 marketing campaign, and he’s now taking his time deciding the place he needs to play in 2025 — if in any respect. One of many causes for the holdup is that Rodgers revealed final week that somebody near him is coping with most cancers.
It has lengthy been anticipated that Rodgers could be a Pittsburgh Steeler, though his lack of urgency to signal a contract because the summer season nears continues to be a bit peculiar.
