Running again Aaron Jones plans to keep in Green Bay in 2023 after agreeing to a brand new, extra team-friendly contract this offseason.
While Aaron Rodgers is presumably sitting in whole darkness considering his future in the league, Green Bay Packers operating again Aaron Jones secured an extension that can keep him on the town for 2023.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Jones’ deal pays him $11 million in 2023, and Jones additionally will get an $8.52 million signing bonus. The No. 1 operating again in Green Bay ran for a career-high 1,121 yards and added 395 receiving yards in 2022 and can enter his seventh 12 months as a Packer this upcoming season.
The Packers and Jones have been rumored to half methods in the event that they couldn’t get a deal executed, as Jones’ earlier contract was going to be the highest cap hit amongst all operating backs at roughly $20 million in 2023. The particular particulars of how a lot Green Bay will save when it comes to wage cap area haven’t but been revealed, but Jones’ extension bodes effectively for the franchise’s playoff-contending hopes in the imminent future.
Now that the Packers have efficiently reworked Jones’ contract, everyone is pondering the identical factor: Is the different Aaron subsequent?
Aaron Jones and Green Bay Packers agree to a team-friendly deal in 2023
One may hardly say Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are in the center of tense contract negotiations — there’s actually been no reported negotiations in any respect to date this offseason with the long-time quarterback at the moment in the center of a “darkness retreat” making an attempt to work out his future.
When Rodgers returns from the four-day retreat, it’s assumed that he could have a clearer view of what he desires to do whether or not which means retiring, staying with the Packers, or asking for a commerce.
In Aaron Jones’ case, the operating again had to take a steep pay lower (a $5 million shave off his wage) to stay with the workforce.
Rodgers’ three-year, $150 million contract signed last March additionally isn’t viable for 2023 and if the quarterback stays in Green Bay, he and the Packers might lock horns when it comes to transforming a brand new deal. That is, if Rodgers desires to keep in the first place.
Jones didn’t precisely maintain the higher hand in his contract negotiations given the crowded operating again market and his not-so-premium place; Rodgers, nevertheless, holds a greater hand and there’s a way that no matter he chooses to do, the Packers will attempt to work with him by means of it.
Green Bay ticked off one field on the offseason guidelines by extending Jones, conserving their operating again nucleus of Jones and A.J. Dillon collectively. Unfortunately, and considerably predictably, the Packers’ quarterback state of affairs for 2023 isn’t so lower and dried.
