A Saturday report indicated Rodgers was likely to finish the season on IR or on the bench. We don’t seem at that time but. Interim Jets HC Jeff Ulbrich stated (via ESPN.com’s Rich Cimini) Rodgers would “completely” begin in opposition to the Seahawks in Week 13.
The Jets sit 3-8, leading to Douglas’ firing, and a lot of reviews have detailed Woody Johnson‘s outsized affect in personnel matters during the GM’s final year in charge. The Rodgers-Johnson relationship, considered by some to be frosty, might decide how this chapter ends. A Sunday report, nevertheless, did describe a fracture between QB and proprietor as overblown.
Johnson is broadly believed to have recommended his then-Robert Saleh-led teaching employees bench Rodgers after he struggled in opposition to the Broncos in Week 4. As could possibly be anticipated, Jets coaches talked the proprietor out of that audacious effort. Rodgers, 41 subsequent week, has not intently resembled his MVP-level kind this season however has additionally been battling accidents. The long run Corridor of Famer has run into ankle, knee and hamstring bother this season, with the hamstring concern believed to be essentially the most important. When requested a couple of report that indicated Rodgers refused medical scans in an effort to maintain his accidents’ severity hidden, Ulbrich stated that was “information to me.”
Rodgers tried to make a traditionally fast return from an Achilles tear final 12 months, resurfacing at observe with an official IR-return designation. Although, he admitted he was not 100% — as could possibly be anticipated — as soon as he got here again to observe. However Rodgers has displayed toughness as a Jet, albeit whereas failing to show the workforce round as many anticipated. QBR locations Rodgers twenty fourth this season, reminding of his 2022 kind (twenty sixth). He has averaged simply 6.4 yards per try this season; that will be a career-low mark for the Seventeenth-year starter.
The Jets are 1-5 below Ulbrich and 1-4 since buying Davante Adams, at Rodgers’ urging. The workforce ranks twenty seventh in scoring and whole offense, whereas Ulbrich’s management has introduced a defensive regression as nicely. Rodgers has however backed Ulbrich, who had been the Jets’ DC from 2021 till Saleh’s firing. Each are extremely more likely to be elsewhere in 2025.
Until the Browns take an unfathomable useless cash hit by slicing Deshaun Watson subsequent 12 months, the Jets dropping Rodgers would convey the second-most useless cash one participant ever has. Solely the Broncos’ $83M-plus Russell Wilson launch will are available in greater, as it will price the Jets $49M — more likely to be break up up through a post-June 1 designation — to launch Rodgers.
If the Jets are to show away from Rodgers as they each put together for a recent begin — whereas probably aiming to make sure a greater probability at a top-five draft selection — they’d stand to switch him with Tyrod Taylor, who signed a two-year, $12M take care of the workforce this offseason. It’s unclear if the workforce would desire a full-on overhaul on the place, however Taylor is tied to a $6M base wage for 2025. Of that whole, $2.5M is assured.
