Packers’ Aaron Rodgers says he will make plans for 2021 NFL season in “a few weeks”

Days after refusing to sign up for a return to the Packers this season, Aaron Rodgers was asked again on Saturday about his immediate future in the NFL. And again, the reigning MVP declined to say if he intends to play Green Bay, if at all. Between games of the American Century Championship golf outing in Nevada, Rodgers told NBC Sports he plans to decide on his plans for 2021 in “a few weeks”, just when the Packers are expected to show up for training camp.

“Well, I’m going to enjoy the hell this week,” Rodgers said when asked about his plans for the season. “And then I’ll get back to practicing and figuring things out in a few weeks.”

In other words, don’t expect to get some clarification on the quarterback’s position at Green Bay until month-end at the earliest. Since losing a second straight NFC Championship game in January, Rodgers has hinted that the Packers’ future is unclear and has become increasingly vague about his role on the team, despite the made him under contract until 2023.

Amid various reports of his dissatisfaction with the front office, as well as an apparent desire to be traded elsewhere, Rodgers refused to publicly deny any suggestions he wanted, pointing to a “philosophical” difference. with the Packers Brass, skipping the team’s mandatory minicamp and then – just last week – saying he didn’t know who the Packers’ QB would be this season.

CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora previously reported that Rodgers was content to just sit there until the end of the summer and watch the Packers “squirm” as he decided his future. The QB reportedly saw retirement as a way to force a trade. According to La Canfora, Rodgers is probably this far from showing up on day one of camp.

Rodgers told those he trusted that he was done with the Packers, that he would not play for them anymore, that he had no plans to show up to any of their football activities – voluntary or compulsory, ”La Canfora wrote in June. “Could that change from here to, say, August?” Perhaps. Rodgers himself won’t know exactly what it feels like not to go to training camp until he actually does.