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Packers send Aaron Rodgers to New York Jets in blockbuster trade

Ifeanyi Ufomadu 13:24 - 25 April 2023

Green Bay Packers agree to trade Aaron Rodgers to New York Jets

The long-rumoured trade sending Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets has finally been agreed.

The Green Bay Packers have agreed a deal to send quarterback Aaron Rodgers and their 2023 first-round and fifth-round picks to the Jets in exchange for New York's 2023 first-round, second-round, and sixth-round picks.

Rodgers finally off to the New York Jets

BREAKING: Packers trading Aaron Rodgers to the Jets. (via @rapsheet, @TomPelissero) pic.twitter.com/FSrKV66l0q
— NFL (@NFL) April 24, 2023

Trade compensation, per sources:

Jets get:
🏈Aaron Rodgers, pick No. 15, a 2023 5th-rd pick (No. 170).

Packers get:
🏈Pick No. 13, a 2023 2nd-rd pick (No. 42), a 6th-rd pick (No. 207), a conditional 2024 2nd-rd pick that becomes a 1st if Rodgers plays 65 percent of the plays. pic.twitter.com/Q2vUMfyZGH
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 24, 2023

The deal will include a conditional 2024 second-round pick that becomes a first if Rodgers plays 65% of the plays this season.

NFL Packers prepared to wait until draft to trade Aaron Rodgers

Big picture for the Jets

Rodgers is being brought in to solve the Jets' long-running quarterback issues and attempt to make the most of their solid defence and make an immediate playoff push.

With this move, 39-year-old Rodgers ends an 18-year stay in Green Bay that spanned 10 Pro Bowl appearances and the 2011 Lombardi Trophy.

Jets General Manager Brian Gutekunst told a news conference he expected the deal to be done before the NFL Draft begins on Thursday.

"Obviously Aaron's up there in age," said Gutekunst.

"I think he's got some really good football left in him...As we got through the offseason and started talking about where we wanted to go, this made a little bit of sense for us."