Dalvin Prepare dinner could possibly be the most recent participant to hitch the Jets’ new-look offense, because the free agent operating again can be visiting the franchise this weekend, in line with a number of experiences.
The operating again has been a free agent since being launched by the Vikings on June 8, and has additionally drawn curiosity from the Broncos and Dolphins this offseason, as ESPN beforehand reported.
Nevertheless, Prepare dinner’s agent Zac Hiller mentioned earlier this month that the Jets ‘have a terrific factor going,’ and his shopper’s go to to New Jersey will solely gasoline extra hypothesis that he is headed to the AFC East franchise.
Prepare dinner’s go to comes after Aaron Rodgers reportedly agreed to restructure his cope with the Jets.
The four-time MVP agreed to a reworked two-year, $75million contract with Gang Inexperienced, a supply advised the AP.
Dalvin Prepare dinner was reduce by the Vikings final month after enjoying six seasons with the Vikings
He could possibly be on his method to the Jets after Aaron Rodgers reportedly took an enormous pay reduce
Rodgers had practically $110million in assured cash remaining on his earlier deal signed with Inexperienced Bay.
And whereas he is but to play a single sport for the Jets, the transfer reveals that he views his Jets keep as going previous 2023.
‘The group gave up important items for it to simply be a one-year deal,’ Rodgers mentioned of his earlier contract after Wednesday’s apply.
‘I am conscious of that… Something might occur with my physique or the success we have now this 12 months, however I am having a blast, so I actually do not see this as a one-year-and-done factor.’
The Jets despatched a primary, second and sixth-round decide on this 12 months’s draft to the Packers, together with a conditional second-rounder subsequent 12 months that might develop into a first-rounder if Rodgers performs not less than 65 p.c of the snaps.
Inexperienced Bay gave up first and fifth-round picks this 12 months, together with the quarterback.
Nevertheless it wasn’t simply Rodgers that ended up in New York.
His former Inexperienced Bay teammates Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb have joined the Jets’ vast receivers room, with the previous inking a four-year, $44million contract with the franchise. Vertical risk Mecole Hardman additionally left the Chiefs for New York.
Together with second-year operating again Breece Corridor and Offensive Rookie of the Yr Garrett Wilson – and presumably Prepare dinner – Rodgers and the Jets stand probability to be one of many NFL’s finest offenses.
Rodgers, left, and backup QB Zach Wilson speak as they stretch at Jets apply final week
One matter broached at Prepare dinner’s Jets go to could possibly be his alleged historical past of home violence.
Prepare dinner provided his ex-girlfriend $1million to drop her home violence claims, in line with a brand new authorized submitting in an ongoing 2021 lawsuit filed in Minnesota.
The 27-year-old operating again made two settlement gives of $800,000, then $1M to his accuser, Gracelyn Trimble – a former US Military sergeant – hoping that she would chorus from testifying in opposition to him, per a current submitting from the accuser’s lawyer.
Cookalso requested his former accomplice to disclaim the abuse accusation with a sworn affidavit and that she ship league officers a letter clearing his title of any wrongdoing in change for the six-figure money supply.
Tremble alleges that Prepare dinner abused her, triggered a mind damage, and held her hostage at his house in a suburb of Minneapolis in November 2020.