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Looking Ahead to the Packers Options with Aaron Rodgers
Posted on October 24, 2022 by Jason Fitzgerald

With the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers stumbling through the 2022 season I have started to get a number of questions pertaining to Rodgers and his contract. Rodgers signed a massive three year contract worth $150.8 million with virtually the entire contract guaranteed for injury and over $100 million fully guaranteed. Due to the size of the contract it is a complex deal and questions are being asked about his future and the Packers options with the salary cap, so I will try to explain the contract as best as possible given the information I have on the deal.

Rodgers currently has a salary cap charge of $31.6 million in 2023. $59.465 million of his $59.515 million salary for the year is already guaranteed. The Packers have the option to pay that salary out as a $58.3 million option bonus and a $1.165 million salary in order to drive his cap charge to the $31.6 million figure. The timing of the option works in the Packers favor for both trades and/or potential retirement as the official option decision does not have to happen until the start of the 2023 regular season.

What Happens in Aaron Rodgers Retires?

If Rodgers were to walk away he would forfeit all his rights to the $59.465 million in guaranteed salary for next year. In order to best accommodate the hit on the salary cap my assumption would be that the Packers and Rodgers would sign a new contract where the option bonus was eliminated and just a $1.165 salary remained. That would reduce Rodgers salary cap charge to $16,998,750 and they would carry him on the roster as a procedural move until June 2nd. At that point they would put him on the retired list. The salary cap charge in that case would be $15,833,570 in 2023 and $24,480,000 in 2024.

pus wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:00 am Maybe I read this wrong, but he's going to spend 4 days in total darkness. So how is he going to find his way to the bathroom and take care of normal bodily functions in total darkness?

The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:42 am

pus wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:00 am Maybe I read this wrong, but he's going to spend 4 days in total darkness. So how is he going to find his way to the bathroom and take care of normal bodily functions in total darkness?

LOL.

Serious answer. If it were me I'd setup a series a ropes around the house. One goes to the bathroom, one to the fridge, one to bed. Find a rope and just start following it.

Grizzled wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:44 am Erin has finished the 4 days of darkness. Is a decision imminent?

Ditka’s dictaphone wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:16 pm

Grizzled wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:44 am Erin has finished the 4 days of darkness. Is a decision imminent?

I’d say “no” he wants to keep people on the hook

Arkansasbear wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:55 pm I'm hoping the Packers hold onto him wanting more than a team will give them and then Rodgers says 'screw it, I'll just retire."

He's gone, Packers get nothing for him.

Or, after no one give them what they want he either gets knocked out the first play of the year or when the Bears play him.

Packers GM awaits word from Aaron Rodgers

Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst has texted with Aaron Rodgers since the quarterback emerged from his darkness retreat last year. They haven’t talked, though.

“Our feelings haven’t changed about Aaron,” he said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “But we need to have some of those conversations about our team, where it’s going, where he’s at before we go forward.”

Rodgers is under contract but hasn’t committed to playing in 2023.
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This isn’t the first time the Packers have waited for Rodgers to rededicate himself to them, but it might be the closest he’s come to leaving the franchise. Gutekunst said there was no timeline for him to make a decision, but he’d like to know by mid-March.

“Free agency’s coming up here …” he said. “It’d be nice to have some answers before then.”

If he wants to be traded, Gutekunst said it would be “a little premature” to speculate about his market value.

He said the Packers are excited about backup Jordan Love.

“I think I’ve expressed to a lot of people that he needs to play,” he said. “That’s the next step in his progression. He needs to play. Jordan’s done a great job working hard, so he’s doing everything we’re asking.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2023 ... -matt-nagy

Trey Wingo wrote:Per Sources, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets had conversations today. While nothing is imminent Rodgers is open tothe idea of going to NY

wulfy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 12:32 pm

Trey Wingo wrote:Per Sources, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets had conversations today. While nothing is imminent Rodgers is open tothe idea of going to NY

RichH55 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:29 pm

wulfy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 12:32 pm

It makes all the sense in the world - that's a ready built championship contender

If Rodgers wants to pull a Patrick Kane and give the Packers no leverage? So they get back like only a 2nd Round pick?

All the better

profootballtalk.com wrote:Thanks to Jimmy Traina of SI.com, who listened to Tuesday’s musings from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers so that others (like me) wouldn’t have to, Rodgers suggested at one point that the negative coverage he has received in recent months flows directly from Big Pharma.

Otis Day wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:33 pm The Russini (sp) woman from ESPN reported earlier that Jets brass boarded their plane and were flying out to CA.

wulfy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:50 pm THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL POST AND DON'T MAKE IT ONE!!!

If Rodgers agrees to this .... he'll need to go back to the Darkness and reconcile his Hypocrisy, as the Jets are owned by the Johnson Family of Johnson & Johnson, aka Big Pharma.

profootballtalk.com wrote:Thanks to Jimmy Traina of SI.com, who listened to Tuesday’s musings from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers so that others (like me) wouldn’t have to, Rodgers suggested at one point that the negative coverage he has received in recent months flows directly from Big Pharma.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... ig-pharma/

Bears Whiskey Nut wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:16 pm I know this isn't about the Bears, but it is about Rodgers, and apparently he's part owner.

The media is reporting that the deal is done. The Pack is prepared to trade Rodgers to the Jets for unknown compensation. The only sticking point as I understand it is that Rodgers has to approve the trade. Given the recent trade of the #1 pick for capital and DJ Moore, getting Rodgers out of the NFC North would complete a near perfect football weekend news cycle. However I could totally see Rodgers being a selfish jackass and deciding to stay with the Packers, where it's clear that the front office is ready to move on. Do we think he approves this trade? I'm guessing no, but I'm usually wrong on these things.