After finishing fourth in the AFC East in 2022, the New York Jets aren’t messing around. Jets’ general manager Joe Douglas went all-in this offseason, trading for aging Green Bay Packers legend Aaron Rodgers for a first-round pick swap, a second-round pick, and a late-round pick swap. While Jets fans may look at the move with apprehension (especially after the similar Brett Favre move in 2008), if they get a couple of strong seasons from Rodgers they could make a run at their first Super Bowl championship since the 1960s.
It’s amazing what competent quarterback play (admittedly, that’s a gross understatement, as Rodgers is a four-time MVP and one of the greatest players in NFL history, even as he enters his age 39 season) can do: from perennial cellar-dwellers to some of the best chances of winning it all after acquiring just one player.