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Percy Harvin Rumors: Green Bay Packers Interested?

By Josh Hill

Oct 26, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Jets wide receiver Percy Harvin (16) during warm ups before the game against the Buffalo Bills at MetLife Stadium. Buffalo Bills defeated New York Jets 43-23. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 26, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Jets wide receiver Percy Harvin (16) during warm ups before the game against the Buffalo Bills at MetLife Stadium. Buffalo Bills defeated New York Jets 43-23. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports /
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The New York Jets are in a bind with Percy Harvin, but the sharks are circling below in case they cut him loose and send him to free agency. 

With NFL free agency right around the corner, there is a lot of talk about who is going to be hitting the market and who is going to be working out deals with their current teams.

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A lot of the time, if there is a new regime being installed in a franchise, the old parts that the old regime brought in are typically jettisoned. For the New York Jets, one of those pieces is Percy Harvin — a player the team traded for to save jobs that were eventually lost.

According to Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk, the Packers and Chargers are two teams that could make a run at Percy Harvin if he’s let go by the New York Jets this offseason.

"If the Jets and Harvin can’t reach a deal, watch these three teams closely:  the Chargers, Packers, and Patriots.  With any of those, Harvin could do a one-year deal, partner with one of the best quarterbacks in the game, have a huge year, chase a championship, and set himself up for a bigger contract in 2016."

If the Packers can get their hands on Harvin, that could be deadly but we don’t know which type of deadly. Either Aaron Rodgers is going to turn him way around and make him into the player he was starting to look like when Brett Favre was throwing him the ball in 2009, or he’s going to be poisonous to the Packers locker room.

San Diego is also an interesting destination for Harvin as he’s a player who can really open up the offense with Philip Rivers alongside Keenan Allen. This is all assuming that Harvin doesn’t totally ruin himself again and destroy locker room chemistry the way he did in Minnesota and again in Seattle.

Harvin is a decent player and he’s someone who can change a game, but he hasn’t been the same player he was at the end of the 2000s, and he may only be missing the right environment in which to thrive in.

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