The Packers had other moves to make, like whether or not to “franchise tag” wide receiver Davante Adams, which they quickly did. The quarterback-slash-recreational epidemiologist made good on his promise to decide early-he even got it done before ice fishing season ended.ĭeadlines helped. Word arrived Tuesday that Rodgers is staying with The Pack.
Remember that? He was going to retire, or host “Jeopardy!” and there was a whole intrigue that overwhelmed Draft Night? It looked ready to be the most maddening cycle of football speculation since…the last time Rodgers left the league in suspense, in 2021. We’d have to wait for Rodgers to talk to his sleeveless Cosell, Pat McAfee, and scold the media for chasing fake news. Or did Rodgers just, you know, appreciate large birds? Was Rodgers implying something about the Eagles? Were the Packers cooking up a deal with the Cardinals? Were the Steelers out? What if, hypothetically, Rodgers wrote: I appreciate birds in the autumn. I figured we were in for at least a few more days of parsing Rodgers’s Instagram, trying to figure out what it meant if the 38-year-old quarterback typed something cryptic at 2 a.m.
