Throughout much of the offseason, much of the focus with the Green Bay Packers have been on the overlying contract situation with star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who is set to enter the fourth year of his five-year, $110 million deal.
This has pushed up the timetable to get a new contract done in order to avoid any of this being a distraction throughout the upcoming season as he would be playing the final year in the 2019 campaign. With that in mind, general manager Mark Murphy has stated that both sides have “common interest” in getting a new deal worked out (h/t Bill Huber of 247 Sports).
“Obviously, he’s an important player,” Murphy said in detailing the Packers’ financial picture. “He wants to be here and want him to be here. When both sides have a common interest, you get deals done.”
There is mutual interest toward working out a deal, it may just be figuring what amount that Rodgers is eyeing on his next deal as it will certainly include a record-breaking amount of guaranteed money that should top the $100 million that Matt Ryan received on his new deal with the Atlanta Falcons.
Although he fractured his collarbone for the second time in his career, the 34-year-old is still viewed as being one of the best quarterbacks in the league that still has a tremendous desire to play into his 40s.
Any type of contract that Rodgers will receive would be viewed as well worth the risk, given what he has brought to table throughout his career and the type of success he has led to the team during that span. He is a bonafide franchise quarterback that could have several highly productive seasons ahead of him to maintain his status as being arguably the best player at his position.
All of this could just simply mean that it should be a matter of time before Rodgers has a new lucrative deal in place to remain with the Packers through possibly the rest of his career.
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