The Green Inlet Packers have delivered RB Aaron Jones. The exchange was declared Monday by Senior supervisor Brian Gutekunst.
“We need to say thanks to Aaron for his unfaltering obligation to the Packers and the local area over the beyond seven seasons,” added Gutekunst. “It is absolutely perhaps of the hardest choice we’ve needed to make in my experience with the Packers and not one messed with. He essentially affects the field and in the storage space, however he is perhaps of the most darling player locally. We wish only awesome for Aaron and his whole family pushing ahead.”
“Today is an intense day for the Packers and our local area. As great of a player as Aaron is on the field, he is a shockingly better individual,” said Lead trainer Matt LaFleur. “At the point when I showed up in Green Cove as a first-time lead trainer, he was instrumental in laying out our triumphant culture and consistently filled in as the best illustration of what it intended to be a Packer. Aaron will continuously be quite possibly of the best player I had the chance to mentor. He, his child, Junior, his mother, Vurgess, and his family will be remembered fondly.”
Jones, who was initially chosen by the Packers in the fifth round (182nd in general) of the 2017 NFL Draft out of the College of Texas-El Paso, played in 97 ordinary season games with 85 beginnings and began every one of the seven postseason challenges he showed up in for Green Cove. He Is the main player in NFL history to post 5,000 or more surging yards (5,940), 45 or more hurrying TDs (45), a normal of 5.0-in addition to yards per convey (5.04), 250 or more gatherings (272), 2,000 or more getting yards (2,076) and 15 or more getting TDs (18) in his initial seven seasons in the association. Jones holds the establishment record for normal yards per convey (min. 750 att.) and positions in the best five in establishment history in hurrying yards (No. 3), 100-yard hurrying games (20, No. 3), 1,000-yard hurrying seasons (three, t-No. 3), hurrying endeavors (No. 4, 1,177) and hurrying TDs (No. 4). He was chosen to the Star Bowl after a 2020 season that saw him rank No. 4 in the association with 1,104 surging yards and nine TDs on 201 conveys (5.49 avg.), setting a solitary season establishment mark for yards per convey (min. 200 att.) as he outperformed FB Jim Taylor’s sign of 5.42 yards per convey in 1962 (272-1,474). Over his seven seasons with Green Sound, Jones assisted the Packers with coming out on top for three division championships and show up in the end of the season games multiple times, arriving at the NFC title game on two events. missed.”
Jones ranks third in team history with 5,940 rushing yards, behind only Ahman Green (8,322) and Jim Taylor (8,207). Jones is also fourth in Packers history with 45 rushing TDs.
Jones restructured his contract last offseason and took a pay cut from $16 million to $11 million. This time around, the two sides couldn’t settle on a happy medium.
Jones carried a cap number of $17.6 million in 2024, a number the Packers weren’t going to pay even before they agreed to terms with Jacobs. If the Packers wait until the start of the new league year on Wednesday to release Jones, they will save $11.9 million against the cap this season.