Report — Giants ‘seriously considering’ Aaron Rodgers

Sides said to be “significantly down a road” that could make it happen

Aaron Rodgers to the New York Giants could really happen.

Northjersey.com Giants beat writer Art Stapleton said Thursday on the ‘Pat McAfee Show’ that the Giants and Rodgers are “pretty significantly down a road” that could lead to the 41-year-old Rodgers being the team’s quarterback in 2025.

“If Aaron Rodgers ends up as a Giant before the start of the league year it would not be a shock,” Stapleton said.

“My understanding is, yes, they have talked about what it would take to get Aaron here with the Giants. My understanding is that at every turn the Giants have yet to be scared off … I think from a football fit this is something that they’re seriously considering.”

Big Blue View readers know that I recently came out as strongly opposed to the idea of Rodgers being the Giants’ quarterback in 2025. Here is part of what I wrote:

Signing Rodgers would be a desperation play by Schoen and Daboll. It would be the kind of short-sighted, self-preservation ‘Hail Mary’ that Schoen promised not to make this offseason despite understanding fully the kind of heat he would be under to field a better product in 2025.

More importantly, a move for the egotistical, spotlight-seeking, shell of the quarterback he once was 41-year-old Rodgers would almost certainly fail spectacularly. And get Schoen and Daboll fired.

Reality, though, is that even a diminished Rodgers remains a more talented quarterback than the other likely veteran options — Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, Kirk Cousins. There is also, though, a history of Rodgers being willing to mentor young quarterbacks.

Could Rodgers be to a drafted quarterback what Kurt Warner was to Eli Manning in 2004? If Rodgers to the Giants were to have any chance of working, Rodgers would have to be willing to accept the idea that he would be walking into that type of situation.

Not everything could be about Rodgers and the friends he would want to bring with him or the way he wants the offense run. It would be about winning as much as possible in 2025 while paving the way for a young quarterback, and being willing to step aside gracefully if the time comes for that young quarterback to play.

Is Rodgers willing to be that? For Rodgers to the Giants to be a success, he would have to be.