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Early this month we noted that Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had fired his agent, Mike Sullivan of Octagon. Now he has a new representative.
Adam Schefter of NFL Network is reporting that Rodgers has hired David Dunn of the firm Athletes First, which also represents quarterbacks including Carson Palmer, Matt Hasselbeck and Derek Anderson.
(UPDATE: The story initially was reported by Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal.)
Rodgers is heading into a season in which he is scheduled to make just $680,000 in base salary, a tiny sum for a starting quarterback, and he is likely looking for a new deal.
He can trigger escalators that will give him a significant pay increase for the 2009 season, which is the final year of his contract. Thanks to signing a rookie contract that, like most if not all first-round deals, based so much of his pay on playing time, Rodgers hasn’t been particularly well compensated, by the standards of a quarterback who was a first-round draft pick, while he held the clipboard and watched Brett Favre for the last three years.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Aaron Rodgers behaved like a saint while quietly holding the clipboard, as Brett cost him 8.25 million by staying…and attempted to cost him more money by coming back. I want Rodgers to do well…and I really don’t like the Packers.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
And he’s going to be a better QB for what he went through.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
comlaining about money that you “could have made”, especially when you didnt play, really pisses me off. rookies should not be making bajillions of dollars, regardless(of anything). bring on that rookie pay limitation system.
all rodgers has to do is play well and he will get handed a bag full of cash. TT loves rodgers, and will give him a check and a kiss on the mouth if the pack makes the playoffs.yuk.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
what was the signing bonus on his rookie contract???
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
With Brohm in the wings, what incentive do the packers have to give Rodgers a big contract. They drafted 2 QB’s which shows how fully committed they are to him in the long term. They didn’t want farve back but that doesn’t mean they want Rodgers as the franchise QB. By week 7 if the pack are 1-6 changing agents will only be relevant for him finding work next year.
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August 27th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
He has this entire season to post a QB rating higher than 85 and get the Packers double digit wins. With that, he will make more money than he can spend. Fall flat on his ass, and the Packers will turn elsewhere.
Is America a great country or what?
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August 27th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
So, he fired an agent who put all these incentives based on playing time while he was going to ‘back up’ the QB who has the most consecutive starts in NFL history. Maybe he should have done that three years ago.
Based on regular season games he played in the last three years(what, 4 or 5?), he made more than 500K to stand on the sidelines.
Maybe the reason no veteran QB wants to come to GB is that the management doesn’t want to pay them more than Rodgers.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Pay the kid, hell Brett Farve owes him at least 2 mil for the nonse that went on this summer.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I’m sick of people crying that Brett Favre cost Aaron Rogers money by not retiring two years ago.
If Favre would have retired after Rogers rookie year, then yes Rogers may have reached incentives that paid him more money. But who’s to say he wouldn’t have then had an Alex Smith/Tim Couch/Ryan Leaf/David Carr type of career from being thrown to the wolves before he was ready.
Rogers got to sit back for three years, make a little money by letting three years of his rookie contract play out without exposing himself to major injuries or displaying many flaws in his game.
Now if Rogers is a bust over the next two years, he’ll still get a decent contract in 2009 from someone who will argue that it takes a QB two years of game experience to come into their own, so he’ll get paid for potential. He wouldn’t get the same offer if he had four or five years of medicore play (ask David Carr) by the time his rookie contract ended.
And if Rogers ends up being a quality QB, he should be able to have a longer career (and make more money later on) because he had three years of little wear and tear on his body before his career really began.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I’m sorry but how can anyone be upset making that kind of money for doing nothing for 3 years?if he has a big year then yea complain all you want next year.and as someone else asked what was his signing bonus? I love how players whine about how little thier yeary salary is when they get millions upon signing the contract.
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