Aaron Rodgers is willing to make ‘adjustments’ to his current $150m Green Bay Packers contract

Aaron Rodgers has admitted that if he plays next season, his contract won’t be viable for most teams in the league, including the Green Bay Packers.

Green Bay’s star quarterback is set to make a guaranteed $59.465 million if he plays in 2023 due to the three-year, $150 million contract extension he agreed to last March. The deal has a salary cap of $31,623,570 for 2023.

“There are a lot of teams, because of COVID, that are tied up, and they see themselves with a lot of different contracts, they’re making more money in deals,” Rodgers said at the Pat McAfee Show.

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Aaron Rodgers has said he is willing to make ‘adjustments’ to his current contract with Green Bay

“They’re creating gap years to allow for an easier cap, so there would have to be some adjustment for sure.”

‘I don’t think there was a scenario where I would return and that would be the number [$60m]. Things would definitely have to change.

In addition to deciding if he wants to play in the NFL next year, Rodgers must also decide if he wants to play for the Packers next season.

All other ideas about [a] trading and so on, that’s all conjecture until I decide what I want to do moving forward for myself,” he added.

Rodgers currently has a ‘real chance’ of being traded this offseason if he plays again

I hope there will be some gratitude on both sides if that happens. But then again, that doesn’t open the door to any guesswork, honestly, on my part. And I’m not saying that to be cryptic. I have to figure out what I want to do, and then we’ll see where all the parts are and what kinds of things happen after that.

He was noticed by ESPN’s NFL Insider Adam Schefter that Rodgers has a “real chance” of being traded from the Packers this offseason.

Rodgers’ contract, however, currently makes it a realistically high and expensive task to trade him elsewhere without first recasting the deal.

In addition to the noted maximum charge of more than $30 million for the upcoming NFL season, there are options to extend Rodgers’ contract to 2025 and 2026 that carry maximum charges of $59.302 million and $53.452 million respectively if he remains in Green Bay.

Rodgers walks off the field with teammate and friend Randall Cobb for possibly the last time

If a team were to trade Rodgers before the contract or options on his deal are modified, the team trading him would incur capitalization charges of $32.5 million in 2024, $51.10 million in 2025 and $45.53 million in 2026.

The Packers have reportedly set a minimum price of two first-round picks to trade Rodgers, and it appears teams may be willing to pay this fee if the financial aspect of the deal becomes more attractive.

Two teams that have already been linked with Rodgers are the New York Jets, who NBC Sports reported would “happily pay that freight,” while the Indianapolis Colts are also said to be interested, according to ESPN.