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The Green Bay Packers are frustrated by possible tampering involving Aaron Rodgers amid the star quarterback's ongoing irritation with the organization.
Rob Demovsky of ESPN reported the Packers are perturbed by teams allegedly reaching out to Rodgers individually to broach the idea of a trade. Green Bay has yet to file charges apparently because of the difficulty in proving tampering:
The Packers are upset teams may have contacted Rodgers to gauge whether he'd be interested in playing for them if they tried to make a trade, sources said. Rodgers does not have a no-trade clause in his deal. The 49ers and Broncos are believed to be among those teams.
A league source said the Packers have not filed charges with the NFL because they know it's nearly impossible to prove. The Packers found that out when they filed a charge against the Vikings in 2008 for tampering with Favre.
This is becoming a source of exacerbation for the Packers, though tampering might not matter in terms of Rodgers' obstinate attitude regarding the state of the franchise.
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Rodgers appears irked especially by general manager Brian Gutekunst. It seems as though he has a real issue with remaining in Green Bay, rather than expressing interest in a particular destination.
Rodgers might want out of Green Bay. But the Packers do not appear to have any interest in dealing him. Not right now, at least. They shot down the San Francisco 49ers' trade call, and a reported impending deal with the Denver Broncos never came to fruition.
Green Bay would have to eat $31.55 million in dead-cap money if it traded Rodgers prior to June 1, per Over The Cap. That number drops to just over $14.3 million after June 1. In other words, if the Packers are having internal conversations about dealing Rodgers, football fans likely won't know until the calendar flips to June.
