What’s next for Aaron Rodgers?

There was something perhaps unintentionally cruel about the phrasing of the Jets’ breakup statement with Aaron Rodgers — “our intention was to move in a different direction at quarterback” — since moving in a different direction was what cost Rodgers one of his two seasons in a Jets uniform. When Rodgers shredded his Achilles tendon just four plays into his Jets tenure at the start of the 2023 season, the Jets saw all their grand hopes for a renaissance roll off on a cart with him.

Gone was New York’s chance to end the longest playoff drought in the NFL. Gone was an opportunity to halt all the prevailing narratives of incompetence, ineffectiveness and butt-fumbling that have hung over this…