Dan Graziano questions Aaron Rodgers' future in NFL after split with Jets

With how it just went with him in New York, Dan Graziano doesn’t know where else Aaron Rodgers can end up at this point in the NFL.

Graziano cast doubt on Rodgers’ future in the league on ‘Get Up’ on Friday following the official end of his time with the Jets. That started with why that tenure didn’t work out in the end in The Big Apple, especially with New York setting up new leadership now in GM Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn.

“Big picture? They weighed it but the speed with which it happened tells you that they knew what they were going to do when the offseason started. I mean, the coach and general manager have been in place, what, almost two weeks now and this is the first big decision that they’ve made. It makes a lot of sense,” Graziano said. “Look, two years – they’ve won six games. It didn’t work out the way they wanted it to. Now you look at your future if you’re the Jets? New head coach, new general manager – you’re starting fresh. What, are you going to have Aaron Rodgers for one more year and then you’re going to have to start over anyway? So, I think it makes a lot of sense.

“You know, he has a lot of gravity to him, right? Like, if you keep Aaron Rodgers now and you’re a new head coach and general manager? As long as he’s there, everything is about him, right? So I think it was probably, in the end, pretty easy for them to decide that we need to be thinking about the longer-term, the bigger picture.”

Those are just the circumstances within that specific organization now going into next season. That doesn’t even include the fact of the matter with Aaron Rodgers, considering his age and injury history at this point of his career.

“There’s no doubting his skill. It’s the question of, at 41 years old, can he maintain that over a period of time? Can he stay healthy enough to be productive?” Graziano asked. “We did see some good moments from him this past year. We also saw some pretty lousy ones. That makes a lot of sense for a player at this stage of his career. The list of quarterbacks that have performed at a championship-level past the age of forty has one name on it. One. Aaron Rodgers thought he was going to be the second one and he hasn’t been.”

Because of all of that, what other team wants, or can afford to want, Aaron Rodgers in 2025?

Most teams have their franchise quarterback or at least think that they do. The ones that don’t will have their options to either draft one or sign one in free agency. That doesn’t leave many openings around the NFL for Rodgers, which is why Graziano isn’t sure which decision-maker would be willing to choose him right now all things considered.

“If I’m a team, I’m looking at my quarterback options, and somebody says Aaron Rodgers? Okay, how’d that go with the Jets? Well, they won six games in two years. He missed a year because of injury, played hurt another year. Everybody got fired. Now he’s 41,” Graziano said. “We signing up for that? I’m not.”

Rodgers is an all-time great and will one day be a Hall of Famer. That career may currently be coming to an end, though, just considering the options, or likely lack thereof, for him across the league going into next season.