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The 49ers are Among the Favorites to Sign Aaron Rodgers

The 49ers would make sense because he would be cheaper and potentially better than Purdy, who has thrown 25 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions in his past 20 starts.

Grant Cohn

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) may have played his last game for Gang Green, Sunday January 5, 2025, in East Rutherford.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) may have played his last game for Gang Green, Sunday January 5, 2025, in East Rutherford. / Kevin R. Wexler-NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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This offseason, the 49ers probably will sign Brock Purdy to a long-term contract extension and Aaron Rodgers probably will retire.

But if they don't come to an agreement with Purdy, and if Rodgers decides to play for one more season, the 49ers apparently are among the favorites to sign him according to oddsmakers.

The favorite is the Raiders at plus-200. They would make sense for Rodgers because they don't have a starting quarterback, plus Tom Brady is a part owner of their team. Perhaps he can lure Rodgers to Las Vegas.

After the Raiders, the 49ers and and the Steelers are tied at plus-300 to sign Rodgers. The Steelers would make sense because their current starting quarterback, Russell Wilson, will be a free agent in the offseason.

The 49ers would make sense because he would be cheaper and potentially better than Purdy, who has thrown 25 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions in his past 20 starts. Rodgers threw 28 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions this season for the awful Jets. He probably would do even better for the 49ers even though he's old and doesn't move well anymore. He still throws the ball much much better than Purdy throws it.

Again, the 49ers' intention this offseason most likely is to sign Purdy. But if they can't come to an agreement with him, Rodgers could be the best alternative for a veteran team that wants to have an immediate bounce back into Super Bowl contention next season.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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