Whispers of Aaron Rodgers to 49ers get louder in attainable Jets worst-case state of affairs
Maybe Craig Carton was onto something.
Weeks after the WFAN host floated the chance that the 49ers might emerge as a possible touchdown spot for Aaron Rodgers — ought to negotiations between the Jets and Packers implode — Tiki Barber echoed the same sentiment Wednesday.
“All of this little simmering, it’s not even like smoke popping out of this factor, it’s just a bit crinkling of flames beginning to burgeon up underneath the leaves about Aaron Rodgers really going to the 49ers versus the Jets now has some validity,” the previous Giants working again mentioned on “Tiki & Tierney,” according to Outkick.
“In the event that they commerce Trey Lance and Brock Purdy isn’t accessible to play this 12 months due to UCL surgical procedure, Sam Darnold is just not, I promise you, is just not beginning for the 49ers. They’ll go get, and so they’re okay to mortgage their future as a result of they don’t care, they’re not anxious about shedding their jobs. They’ve achieved it earlier than. They’ve gotten to the championship recreation, they’ve gotten deep within the playoffs. This staff will go get Aaron Rodgers if he’s accessible, and the Jets, the premise we began this with, can be caught sitting out within the chilly with their underwear on and that’s it.”
Carton beforehand talked about the dialogue “has been a number of third-round picks on this draft, and a first-round draft decide in subsequent 12 months’s draft” in regard to attainable compensation.
The 49ers shouldn’t have a first- or second-round decide on this 12 months’s draft.
San Francisco despatched its 2023 first-round choice to the Dolphins two years in the past as part of a package to move up in the 2021 NFL Draft once they chosen quarterback Lance third general.
The previous North Dakota State product, who suffered a season-ending ankle damage in Week 2, has been the subject of recent trade rumors within the lead-up to this 12 months’s draft, which kicks off from Kansas Metropolis subsequent Thursday.
At present, the 49ers are homeowners of three third-round picks, starting with the No. 99 general choice.
Rodgers, 39, stays a member of the Packers regardless of stating in March how he intends to play for the Jets in 2023.
Each New York and Inexperienced Bay have but to hammer out a deal to ship the four-time league MVP to the East Coast.