The REAL Value of Buying and selling for Rodgers; Worst in Jets Historical past?

When the New York Jets traded for Aaron Rodgers again in April of 2023, it was a deal that was speculated to propel Gang Inexperienced to new heights.  Overlook the AFC Championship video games of the previous that Jets followers have clung to for thus lengthy.  This was the transfer to place the Jets within the Tremendous Bowl inside the subsequent 24 months.  The price?  Who cares!  That is the transfer to place the Jets excessive.

Nicely, now that two full NFL seasons have handed and the Jets are able to half methods with Rodgers, let’s have a look again at what this deal truly value the Jets.  Not simply in what they paid to get Rodgers, however the subsequent strikes that had been made to encompass him with gamers who made him most comfy.

What number of wage cap {dollars} did these strikes eat up? What did the Jets lose in draft capital when all was mentioned and executed?  Spoiler alert…an terrible lot.

First there was the up-front compensation that the Jets despatched to Inexperienced Bay to accumulate Rodgers.  It was a swap of first-round picks that noticed the Jets drop from thirteenth to fifteenth.  Largely a nothing burger as Gang Inexperienced landed stud cross rusher Will McDonald.

After the swap of firsts, the Jets moreover gave up a 2nd and a sixth spherical selection within the 2023 draft.  Then there was a compensatory decide for the 2024 draft which turned out to be a second spherical decide together with one other fifth rounder in that very same draft.

The Jets then re-worked Rodgers’ deal to incorporate $75 million in assured cash.  Having been paid $26 million in cap {dollars} so far, the Jets are nonetheless left on the hook for an additional $49 million.

The Jets added huge receiver Allen Lazard in anticipation of buying and selling for his good pal Aaron Rodgers.

In anticipation of including Rodgers, which the crew felt was going to occur, they went out and added his shut pal Allen Lazard in free company.  It was a 4-year deal price $44 million with half of that assured.  Now prone to be launched this offseason, the Jets can have spent $28 million on Lazard in wage and what’s prone to be a future lifeless cap hit of $6 million.

When the Jets nonetheless thought there was an opportunity to salvage their 2024 season, proprietor Woody Johnson did what no different crew was keen to do and shipped a third-round decide to the Las Vegas Raiders for an additional one among Rodgers’ greatest buddies in huge receiver Davante Adams.

The receiver had been in the marketplace for weeks with the Raiders reportedly asking for a spherical 3 decide.  No one was taking the bait till Woody Johnson stepped in and ordered the Jets entrance workplace to drag the set off.  So off went the 2025 third-round decide to go together with the remaining $11 million on Adams’ 2024 wage.

Add to these strikes the additions of operating again Dalvin Prepare dinner, huge receiver Randall Cobb, offensive sort out Billy Turner and Rodgers’ former Inexperienced Bay teammate Tim Boyle and also you’ve to 4 roster spots and roughly $13 million {dollars} on prime of what was already spent on Rodgers.

When all was mentioned and executed, the overall price ticket for Rodgers and his supporting forged ran the Jets $126.6 million together with the next:

2023 draft picks:

– 1st spherical swap of picks from 13 to fifteen

– 2nd spherical decide

– sixth spherical decide

2024 draft picks:

– 2nd spherical decide in 2024

– fifth spherical decide in 2024

2025 draft picks

– third spherical decide in 2025

That’s an terrible lot of cap {dollars} and draft capital in change for only one season of precise soccer during which Rodgers’ mediocre play led the Jets to simply 5 wins.

A horrible commerce by way of worth that’s made worse by the truth that the Jets overpaid for Rodgers irrespective of how issues transpired.

He was a QB on the sting of 40-years-old and his outdated crew was prepared to maneuver on however owed Rodgers $100 million.  The Packers had no selection however to unload Rodgers with Jordan Love ready within the wings.  With no different groups so bidding towards themselves, the Jets forked over all that capital with days left earlier than they might be on the clock within the draft and have the Packers sweating.

The Jets caved, Rogers is gone, and it value the Jets dearly in what ought to go down because the worst commerce in crew historical past.

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Glenn was Born within the Bronx, New York and has adopted the Jets religiously regardless of being stationed in a number of totally different nations and time zones all over the world. He now resides in England and has been a JetNation member since 2005. Glenn will bleed inexperienced with the remainder of us by the highs and lows.