The New York Giants are considering former New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers as one of the veteran QB options they are interested in, according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
“Aaron Rodgers, who did view the Rams as a prime location, still needs work, still does want to play, and the New York Giants are looking into Aaron Rodgers, as they are for all of the veteran quarterbacks available,” Rapoport said on Sunday. “The union between Rodgers and the Giants does make some sense. Let me explain why. Either way, if they draft a quarterback at one or three or wherever they end up drafting, they probably need some sort of a bridge starter… [He] wants to show that he’s still got it, that he still does want to play. If he can do it in the same city as he was with the Jets, obviously, that would be something that he would like.”
From our Combine coverage: Setting the table for a wild few weeks in the QB carousel and explaining why the #Giants looking into Aaron Rodgers makes a ton of sense. pic.twitter.com/j259oeK54e
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 2, 2025
ESPN analyst and former Detroit Lions quarterback Dan Orlovsky echoed Rapoport’s sentiments on a recent episode of Get Up.
“If I’m the Giants, now, option number one does become Aaron Rodgers. That’s just their reality,” Orlovsky explained. “It’s a little bit of desperation because their reality is this: Brain Daboll [and] Joe Schoen, they’ve got to win by November, or you’re gone… The likeliest way for you to do that: Mailk Nabers. Get him the football as many times as you can. He broke the rookie receiving record last year. We know Aaron feeds receivers. Davante Adams led the league in catches for like four straight years. So, the starting point is Aaron Rodgers.”
Despite what national media members have said, New York-focused analysts are not as hopeful that a deal will happen between Rodgers and the Giants.
“Yes, the Giants have discussed Rodgers. Members of their coaching staff actually sought out former members of the Jets coaching staff in Indy to ask about Rodgers’ two years in New York. But no deal is imminent,” wrote SportsNet New York’s Connor Hughes. “Rodgers is not believed to be the immediate fallback option after missing on Stafford. One source actually said that he would be ‘stunned’ if it actually happened.”
The #Giants took their big swing on Matt Stafford. That failed. Now multiple sources expect them to concentrate their efforts on getting the No. 1 pick from Tennessee, and pairing the QB they select with a veteran.
That could be Aaron Rodgers, but I’m told the former… pic.twitter.com/7fTYjp9HKn
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) March 2, 2025
Meanwhile, Ed Valentine, the founder and editor of Big Blue View (SB Nation’s New York Giants website), didn’t mince words about the rumors of Rodgers going to the Giants. He said that the G-Men “must enjoy being laughed at” if they were really considering Rodgers as an option.
“Signing Rodgers would be a desperation play by Schoen and Daboll. It would be the kind of short-sighted, self-preservation ‘Hail Mary’ that Schoen promised not to make this offseason despite understanding fully the kind of heat he would be under to field a better product in 2025. More importantly, a move for the egotistical, spotlight-seeking shell of the quarterback he once was, 41-year-old Rodgers would almost certainly fail spectacularly. And get Schoen and Daboll fired,” Valentine wrote. “Signing Rodgers would lead to John Mara’s once-proud, four-time Super Bowl-winning franchise spending another season being laughed at. Jets fans are already laughing at the folly of the Giants possibly repeating their mistake… The circus would most definitely be in town. Ten years ago, that was probably worth putting up with. Now. No, thanks.”
