Aaron Rodgers congratulates replacement Jordan Love on record contract

Jordan Love spent three years in Aaron Rodgers’ shadow. After just one year as a starter, Love performed well enough to tie the record for the highest average rookie money of any player in NFL history.

And in an appearance Saturday on NFL Network as part of “Back Together Weekend” (which still doesn’t resonate with anyone other than those who pay him), Rodgers talked about the massive new contract Love signed.

“I want to congratulate Jordan Love on being named the highest paid player in the NFL,” Rodgers said on Twitter. USA Today“J-Love, don’t spend all your money in one place. But if you do, I still have a house in Green Bay for sale.“.”

Love later took up the joke around the house.

“Someone will buy it, but I probably won’t,” Love said.

While Love isn’t the highest-paid player — he’s tied with Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence in new-money average at $55 million — Love is making $78.5 million this season, including a massive $75 million signing bonus that will be paid in full by Dec. 27. It’s a remarkable development for the only man in the last three years of Rodgers-Packers dysfunction who didn’t volunteer for the job. Love was drafted into that mess, keeping his head down and his mouth shut as the Shakespearean drama played out around him.

Unfortunately, we probably won’t see Rodgers and Love face each other at any point in their careers. They could have met this season under the 17th-game format, but they didn’t finish in the same division in 2023. (The New York Jets will play the New York Vikings instead.) As a result, the New York Jets won’t play the New York Packers until 2026.

Unless they meet this year in the Super Bowl (which would be great), the only way we’ll see Rodgers vs. Love is if Rodgers leaves the New York Jets after this season and signs with a team the Packers are scheduled to play with in 2025 — for example, SteelersHe is supposed to choose between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields after next season and theoretically could choose neither.