Jets’ Aaron Rodgers: Gardner, Wilson can be the finest at their positions

Aaron Rodgers has just been with the New York Jets for 6 weeks, however he’s seen sufficient to think that 2 of the group’s leading young gamers, cornerback Sauce Gardner and broad receiver Garrett Wilson, have an perfectly intense future.

Rodgers believes that the Jets might quickly have the NFL’s finest broad receiver and cornerback in Wilson and Gardner, which he revealed to the New York Post on Friday.

“We’ve got, at some point perhaps, the finest corner and the finest receiver in the NFL,” Rodgers stated. “It’s a legitimate possibility I believe for those 2 men. Maybe not this upcoming year – I still believe Davante [Adams] is in a league of his own – however those 2 kids are so talented.”

Rodgers, a Super Bowl MVP, four-time NFL MVP and 10-time Pro Bowler, stated that Wilson often makes a play in practice that makes him go, “Wow!”

Gardner and Wilson are just one season into their particular NFL professions, as the Jets prepared the previous with the No. 4 choice in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Cincinnati and the latter with the No. 10 choice out of Ohio State in the exactsame draft. Both gamers appeared in 17 videogames and won Rookie of the Year on their side of the ball.

Gardner amountedto 2 interceptions, 20 passes defensed and 75.0 integrated dealswith and was part of a Jets defense that gaveup simply 189.4 passing backyards (third in NFL) and 18.6 points (fourth) per videogame. 

Meanwhile, Wilson amountedto 83 receptions for 1,103 lawns and 4 goals, all of which led the group, in a season that saw the Jets start 4 quarterbacks (Zach Wilson, Joe Flacco, Mike White and Chris Streveler).

Rodgers sees the second-year gamers pressing each other in practice.

“How we take the next action is to talk about the things that provide us the most concerns,” Rodgers stated. “To talk about release concerns [caused by Gardner] and likewise what’s tough on Garrett, and then Sauce informing Garrett what’s difficult on him. I believe right now, we got great interaction with those people. They fight, they complete.”