
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst provided a new and significantly different timeline of events that led up to Aaron Rodgers requesting a trade to the New York Jets.
To hear Rodgers tell the story, the Packers kept the door open for Rodgers in terms of returning to Green Bay for 2023 during initial exit conversations, but “something changed” during his darkness retreat and the team was all of sudden ready to move on from the future Hall of Famer, prompting the trade request.