JUST IN: Aaron Rodgers traded to Detroit Lions!
He's staying in the NFC North after all!
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Aaron Rodgers is going to be staying in the NFC North Division after all! He was traded this afternoon to the rival Detroit Lions, ending speculation about his potentially joining the New York Jets! The move was announced by team management today during a press conference in.....
....okay, we're just kidding. Happy April Fool's Day!
Rodgers is still very much expected to eventually be wearing the green uniform of the Jets, with a deal to New York that "could happen as early as this week" according to Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer:
"I think it’ll happen sooner than people think because I don’t think things between the Packers and Jets are in nearly as bad a place as some seem to believe they are," Breer wrote in his recent mailbag piece for SI. "We mentioned earlier in the week the rapport between GMs Joe Douglas and Brian Gutekunst from their time coming up as young road scouts. The two head coaches, Robert Saleh and Matt LaFleur, are best friends. So any raw feelings between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers, I think, are manageable, because of the relationships in place."
