It does not sound like the Green Bay Packers want quarterback Aaron Rodgers back in Wisconsin.
As NFL Network’s Rich Eisen ran through some eye-opening 2023 NFL Scouting Combine rumors, Rodgers’ tenuous future in Green Bay came up for discussion.
Eisen seems to think the winds in Green Bay are not blowing in Rodgers’ direction.
“The Packers sure hope Aaron Rodgers doesn’t want to come back,” Eisen said to a spatter of laughs in his studio. “They sure hope that when he comes up with his decision, it is, ‘I wish to retire, or I wish to be traded elsewhere.’ They do not want his response to be, ‘Let’s run it back.’
“When I say I heard that over and over and over again, it’s just like, ‘You have no idea what’s going on there.'”
Rich is back from Indianapolis and boy did he hear some things — his Top 5 Rumors Heard at #NFLCombine:
5. Philip Rivers
4. #DaBears
3. Lamar
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1. 🐐#NFL #NFLFreeAgency #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/F08mMCAcGq— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) March 6, 2023
While Eisen doubled down on the idea that this is just a “hot rumor” that was going around the NFL Combine, it doesn’t really bode well for Rodgers’ future in Green Bay if the team is ready to move on from him.
Nobody knows how the Rodgers saga will end, with his darkness retreat behind him and a big decision ahead of him. Packers general manager Brian Brian Gutekunst has spoken highly of quarterback Jordan Love lately, and he’s certainly an option for Green Bay if Rodgers moves on.
However, the ball is in Rodgers’ court with his contract virtually impossible for Green Bay to cut without catastrophic 2023 cap penalties. It’ll take either a trade or a retirement decision to get the future Hall of Famer out of the building.
