Packers: We’ve heard from everybody except Aaron Rodgers
It’s been quite a week in the world of the Green Bay Packers, with the draft class taking a backseat to the million-dollar question that is Aaron Rodgers’ future.
In the past week, we’ve heard from just about everybody. Reporters, coaches, general managers, analysts, former teammates. Seemingly everyone from Brian Gutekunst to friends of friends of friends have weighed in.
But there’s one voice we haven’t heard from: Aaron Rodgers.
It all started with a report on draft day from ESPN’s Adam Schefter that Rodgers wanted out.
Speaking on “The Dan Patrick Show” this week, Schefter said that it wasn’t one thing that led to the report:
“It was nothing that morning that came in that all of a sudden said to me, ‘yeah he wants out’, you should report this,” Schefter said. “It was going on all offseason.”
“It was just an accumulation of information throughout the course of the entire offseason,” Schefter added.
We’ve heard Rodgers’ former teammate and friend John Kuhn tell CBS Sports Radio he believes there’s an “opportunity at a resolution”. Meanwhile another former teammate, Brett Favre, said on ESPN’s Wilde & Tausch radio show that he believes Rodgers would “rather sit out than play”.
It won’t be long before all 7.6 billion of Earth’s population have weighed in on Rodgers’ future with the Packers.
That is, of course, except from the reigning MVP himself.
Schefter noted in the interview with Dan Patrick that Rodgers didn’t want it out before the draft, nor was it planted by the Packers. There’s every possibility that neither Rodgers or the Packers wanted this out in the public, which it hadn’t been prior to Schefter’s report.
But now that it is, it would be great to hear from Rodgers to provide some clarity on where he’s at and how he sees things. Is he committed to the Packers in 2021 and, if not, is there any way of changing that?
Rodgers has been fairly open, although at times cryptic, about his future, including calling it a “beautiful mystery” in the week leading up to the NFC title game loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
At some point this offseason, we’ll have our answer. Will the Packers trade Rodgers to another team? Will he retire? Will he hold out? Or will he return to the team for at least another season, and it will take a contract extension for it to happen?
We simply do not know. Maybe Rodgers has played his final snap in Green Bay. Maybe he hasn’t.
But after hearing from just about everybody over the past week, it would great to hear from Rodgers himself on this situation.