NFL Rumors: Jets may give No. 13 pick for No. 12, D-Hop and Odell Beckham Jr. updates
By Kristen Wong
NFL Rumors: Packers want Jets’ 13th overall pick for Aaron Rodgers
The consensus is in: Aaron Rodgers is not worth a first-round pick, and the Green Bay Packers are delusional to think he is.
One can’t fault Green Bay too much for wanting to turn Rodgers’ lemons into lemonade, yet even the front office has to admit it’s being a little too greedy this offseason.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer discussed what the Packers might be looking for in a trade package and implied that Green Bay wanted the Jets’ 2023 first-round pick:
“I’d just say that if the 13th pick was on the table, with maybe a little sweetener, I think the deal would probably be done already,” Breer wrote.
Breer’s comments echo that of Mike Florio, who also reported that the Packers desired a first-rounder to seal the deal.
Too bad the Packers really don’t hold that much leverage. The New York Jets can simply wait out the situation all the way until training camp as they’re in no rush to get Rodgers situated on his new team.
Rodgers is already familiar with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, and while it’s not ideal to wait that long to introduce a new starting quarterback to the team, it’s definitely better than coughing up a first-rounder.
Breer also called teams around the league to ask what they’d hypothetically give up for Rodgers, and the highest teams would go is a “Day 2 pick this year” along with a conditional pick or two. One of Breer’s ideas was to play with the conditional terms and give the Packers a 2024 third-rounder that becomes a second if, say, Rodgers makes the Pro Bowl or a first if, say, the Jets reach the Super Bowl.
Sounds fair enough.