Aaron Rodgers could retire if he doesn't get offer from specific team: report

Aaron Rodgers whitethorn take to discontinue from the NFL if helium doesn't get his mode successful escaped agency, according to The Athletic. 

As the erstwhile MVP reportedly considers offers from the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, helium would similar to motion with the Minnesota Vikings, according to the outlet. 

If Rodgers doesn't get an connection from Minnesota, helium whitethorn retire. 

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New York Jets backmost Aaron Rodgers during the 2nd fractional of a crippled against the Buffalo Bills successful East Rutherford, N.J., Oct. 14, 2024.  (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

The Vikings person an opening for a seasoned backmost aft past year's starter, Sam Darnold, signed with the Seattle Seahawks. However, Minnesota besides has erstwhile Michigan nationalist champion J.J. McCarthy, the team's first-round prime successful the 2024 draft. 

Rodgers, astatine 41 years old, is not considered a semipermanent solution for immoderate team. 

Famed NFL cause Leigh Steinberg, who has negotiated contracts for aggregate Hall of Fame quarterbacks, told Fox News Digital helium envisions Minnesota arsenic a "positive fit" for Rodgers astatine this signifier successful his career, particularly owed to McCarthy's beingness arsenic a imaginable protégé and the squad being suited to triumph successful the short-term. 

"So, you request to person a concern where, due to the fact that Aaron astatine champion possibly plays different year, possibly plays different 2 years, but it's not a imperishable solution, truthful it's a one- oregon two-year fix," Steinberg said. "So, helium could spell to a squad that's truly bully but conscionable needs that past small portion to enactment them implicit the top, and helium could mentor a younger quarterback."

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Green Bay Packers backmost Aaron Rodgers waves to fans arsenic helium leaves the tract aft a crippled against the Los Angeles Rams successful Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 19, 2022.  (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Steinberg besides believes a squad without a accidental to triumph successful the abbreviated word with nary young backmost connected its roster would not beryllium arsenic bully a fit. The Giants are a squad that fits that mold. The Steelers whitethorn person had a winning grounds past play but aren't a shoo-in to beryllium bully again this year. They besides don't person a young task quarterback.

"A squad that's truly dissatisfied with their quarterbacking that takes him wouldn't beryllium arsenic affirmative of a solution," Steinberg said. 

If Rodgers does extremity up getting an connection from the Vikings and signing with them, helium would travel a astir identical vocation way to that of his Green Bay Packer predecessor, Brett Favre. Like Favre, Rodgers played the immense bulk of his vocation with the Packers, winning a Super Bowl earlier being traded to the New York Jets. Favre past spent his last 2 years connected the Vikings. 

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The Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers during the 2nd fractional of an NFC divisional playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers Jan. 22, 2022, successful Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Favre offered proposal to Rodgers and encouraged him to motion with the Vikings during an interrogation connected Fox News Channel's "The Will Cain Show" Tuesday.

"By each means, motion with them," Favre said. "They got a truly bully shot team. They're loaded astatine beauteous overmuch each position. They made it to the playoffs past year. They got a tremendous instrumentality base, overmuch similar the Packers. If you get the opportunity, that's a bully spot to win. 

"Of course, you gotta play the Packers then."

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