NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is leaving the Green Bay Packers after 18 seasons. He’ll be enjoying with the New York Jets in 2023.

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NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is leaving the Green Bay Packers after 18 seasons. He’ll be enjoying with the New York Jets in 2023.

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After months of commerce talks, four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers is leaving the Green Bay Packers for the New York Jets, although the deal continues to be not fairly finalized.

Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst told reporters throughout a information convention on Monday afternoon that the groups have been making an attempt to hammer out the deal for about six days however that “there are still some things that need to be done.”

He added that he expects it could take one other couple of days to type all of it out.

The transfer comes simply days earlier than the 2023 NFL draft.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the deal would imply Green Bay can have 11 picks heading into the draft. As of Monday, they’ve “one pick in the first round, two in the second, one in the third, one in the fourth, one in the fifth, one in the sixth and four in the seventh.”

The 39-year-old quarterback had been vocal for a while about his frustrations enjoying for the Packers, saying he ought to have been extra concerned within the path of the group. And he explicitly talked about his plans to maneuver to the Jets.

“I made it clear my intention was to play and to play for the New York Jets,” he said final month on an episode of The Pat McAfee Show, including that he was not “holding anything up.”

He stated on the time that the Packers additionally wished “to move on and have let me know that in so many words.”

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Rodgers is predicted to surrender the No. 12 he wore for the Wisconsin group for 18 years — regardless that Joe Namath, the Jet who retired the quantity in New York, had provided to unretire the quantity for the star. Instead, Rodgers will don the No. 8, which he wore in his faculty enjoying days at the University of California, Berkeley.