Aaron Rodgers reportedly won’t keep the Green Bay Packers waiting for an answer about his future much longer, even though that’s what he said a few weeks ago.
Dianna Russini of ESPN reports that Aaron Rodgers will be informing the Packers of his decision as well as her sources telling her that there are multiple teams with trade offers on the table for QB. However, nothing can happen unless the team actually agrees to trade him.
On Wednesday, Packers GM Brian Gutekunst told reporters that he would prefer to build around Rodgers instead of trade him away for draft picks.
“Because I think we’ve got as good a shot as anybody to win a Super Bowl next year,” Gutekunst said when asked why he wouldn’t want to trade Rodgers. “He’s the MVP of the league. That’s our goal. I think we have an opportunity to do it right now. That’s why.”
He added that he did not tell Rodgers he would trade him last year.
“That was not something I told him,” Gutekunst said. “Again, I think the whole conversation with Aaron last season before he came back was that, regardless, at the end of this past season, that we would sit down as a group and we would work it out one way or another.”
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Following Green Bay’s 13-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Round, Rodgers told reporters he would “take some time and have conversations with the folks around here, and then take some time away and make a decision” before the start of free agency.
Speculation about Rodgers’ future picked up earlier this week when he posted a series of pictures on Instagram with friends and teammates, along with a caption expressing gratitude for many of his Packers teammates. He offered nothing during his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.
In 2021, Rodgers appeared in 16 games for the Packers and completed 68.9 percent of his passes for 4,115 yards, 37 touchdowns and four interceptions.
