Report: Rodgers gives Jets free-agent want checklist together with OBJ

Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers offered the New York Jets with a want checklist of free brokers he’d like them to focus on and purchase, sources informed ESPN’s Dianna Russini.

The reported checklist contains broad receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Randall Cobb and veteran tight finish Marcedes Lewis. It additionally featured wideout Allen Lazard, whom New York agreed to phrases with on a four-year, $44-million contract Tuesday, sources informed Jordan Schultz, theScore’s NFL insider.

The Jets reportedly met with Rodgers final Tuesday to debate a commerce. The Packers are open to the concept of shifting the four-time NFL MVP, who’s beneath contract with them till 2025. He has but to announce if he intends to play in 2023 after leaving his future open-ended following the 2022 common season.

Rodgers has been teammates with Cobb, Lazard, and Lewis for a number of years. Cobb spent the primary eight seasons of his profession in Inexperienced Bay earlier than leaving the group in 2019 for one-year stints with the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans. He returned for a second stint with Rodgers and Co. in 2021 and 2022.

Lazard and Lewis each performed for Inexperienced Bay from 2018-22. The previous led the membership in targets (100), receptions (60), and receiving yards (788) final yr.

Beckham hasn’t performed since struggling a torn ACL in Tremendous Bowl LVI in February 2021 as a member of the Los Angeles Rams. He visited a number of groups in December however didn’t signal with them. The 30-year-old not too long ago hosted a non-public exercise for NFL groups and has since reportedly had conversations with a number of golf equipment.

Garrett Wilson, the tenth total choose within the 2022 draft, led the Jets with 83 catches, 1,103 yards, and 4 landing receptions final yr. New York’s broad receiver depth chart additionally options veteran Corey Davis and 2021 second-round choose Elijah Moore.

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