Giants targeting Aaron Rodgers after NY Jets debacle is comedy gold

Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Just weeks after the New York Jets officially made the decision to move on from Aaron Rodgers following a disappointing two-year stint with the organization, a new landing spot for the 2025 season has emerged for the future Hall of Fame quarterback.

And it couldn’t be a more hilarious team.

The New York Giants, fresh off watching their crosstown rivals implode in the Rodgers experiment, are now reportedly eyeing the very same quarterback — only two years older and a little over a year removed from suffering a torn Achilles.

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Friday that, after missing out on Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, the Giants will now turn their attention to Rodgers and other veteran options. The Athletic's Dianna Russini confirmed the same, insisting the Giants "are now shifting their interest" to Rodgers.

Per Russini, the Giants have been "discussing" the possibility of signing Rodgers all week once it became clear they probably wouldn't be able to land Stafford. Rodgers is their pivot.

Giants clearly didn't learn from NY Jets' Aaron Rodgers mistake

Two years ago at this time, the Jets made the decision to take a swing on Rodgers, acquiring him in a blockbuster trade with the Green Bay Packers. The move made plenty of sense at the time.

Rodgers was coming off his first true "down" season but was still regarded as one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. The Jets believed they had a Super Bowl-caliber roster missing only a true franchise quarterback. Rodgers was supposed to be the final piece of the puzzle.

Instead, Rodgers tore his Achilles four plays into his first season in New York, setting into action a chain of events that could only be described as a worst-case scenario for the organization.

By the time Rodgers returned in 2024, the roster had taken a step back, and it became abundantly clear that the four-time MVP was a shell of his former self. He battled through injuries and inconsistencies in what would be his final season in Florham Park.

Fast forward to the present day, and Giants general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll find themselves in an eerily similar position to where Joe Douglas and Robert Saleh were back in 2023.

Schoen and Daboll might have the hottest seats of any current regime in the NFL. They're facing extreme pressure to not only field a competitive team in 2025 but to finally find some sort of answer at the quarterback position.

It's a dilemma Douglas and Saleh faced two years prior. Both franchises seem to have the same solution.

But a lot has changed over the last two years. Rodgers is older, has suffered a torn Achilles, and is nowhere near the caliber of player the Jets believed they were landing in 2023. The Giants have seen the worst of Rodgers, and evidently, that hasn't affected their stance.

Logic suggests this move would be a disaster for the Giants. Their roster isn’t built to compete in 2025, and they field one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL. That’s a dangerous combination for a quarterback like Rodgers, who played through multiple leg injuries last season and no longer has the mobility he once did.

The sheer potential for hilarity is enough to make Jets fans laugh, but logic isn’t the only factor at play. In true Jets fashion, it would be all too fitting if Rodgers joined their crosstown rivals and found more success than he ever did in green and white.

The wrath of the football gods must be considered here. They don't abide by logic — only irony, chaos, and the cruelest possible outcomes.

Nonetheless, Jets fans will be keeping a close eye on how the Rodgers situation develops. You couldn't write a better story than this one.

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