It’s hard to steal a thunder from the NFL Draft, but that’s exactly what Aaron Rodgers did last weekend and he doesn’t want to return to the Packers after the news was leaked.
Speculation about Rodgers’ status with Green Bay has been floating around like a swarm of locusts for the past several days, when an NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the star quarterback is “seriously considering retiring” . However, his former Packers teammate AJ Hawk knocked him down
“My opinion would be that Aaron has a zero percent chance of retiring,” Hawk Said on the “Pat McAfee Show” on Monday. “If you go back and listen to him speaking on the competitive nature of what football is and what it brings him, do you really think that dude is going to get away from the game?”
“When I heard that I was swimming there, I was like that, it was the most humble thing I had ever heard. I guarantee you that he is not retiring. “
Hawk spent the weekend with Rodgers in the Kentucky Derby, where the two posed for photos with Rodgers’ fiancée Shailene Woodley. While Hawk said it was a social trip and he was not speaking for Rodgers, he said he had a sense of what the quarterback was thinking during the trip.
One thing he felt ready to share was the suspicion that Rodgers had actually given the team an ultimatum that he would return only if GM Brian Gutekunst would be let go, as reported.
“It’s also garbage, I guess,” Hawke said. “I certainly don’t think that Aaron is trying to say that to the fire group. Like I said, I’m not speaking for him, I’m just telling you what my feelings are by being around him.
“I think the front office probably knows, it’s not something that’s just all over us and suddenly we have all the issues. I think it’s something they know, wow, how we got this far met? “
Hawk said he has not had any conversations with anyone in Green Bay and is just speculating. But given that he is the last man to roam with Rodgers, it is safe to speculate that he knows something about the mentality of the QB.
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