Well that sucks!!!

I hope this is not Russ Ball being clever like he was with a certain TE.

This wasn't on Ball. Aaron signed Drew R as an agent - this writing was on the wall. There was no way GB could bring him back at 17MM... And am guessing Drew was pressing for at least what these backs were getting.

Im sad to see him go

But strong work for Pack for prioritizing this to find a 17-game replacement.

Ouch. I feel like I'm bouncing around in a pinball machine today. First, the incredible high of signing Josh Jacobs and now the incredible low of releasing Aaron Jones. This one hurts.

Packers offense and Love were clicking when Jones came back healthy , big mistake releasing him.

So much for not being Jones replacement!

These salary cap cut sure suck. I always want to keep these guys till they retire. If it wasn't for the cap however, I don't think the Packers would have survived the bad years.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I was on his flight to Denver in January, chatted and took a pic with him. He was so kind. I asked if he'd be back and he said "definitely." It's a business, I get it, but man this sucks. Gonna miss the sombrero! Thanks AJ for everything!

Wow! Two GB icons gone on the same day. Runyon as well. Really, really hate to see Jones gone. What a great Packer!!

Ugh, I hate this, like most everyone else here. Really unfortunate they could agree on a restructure/reduction or whatever you want to call it. I think he was the best player on offense...maybe the whole team. He was such a great Packer. Thanks for the memmories AJ.

A 30 year old running back with a $17.6M cap hit who has missed a bunch of games, playing in only 11 games last year, who always seems to be on a pitch count for health reasons, and with no reason to believe that Aaron Jones was willing to lower the cap number, replaced by a 26 year old one time all pro, and knowing that the Packers prefer bigger, bruiser-type backs ... not really as surprising as people think, I'd say.

It seems like the Vikings go out of their way each year to sign just about every player the Packers release. I'd hate to think how much it would hurt if they do that with Jones.

Packers also signing Xavier Mckinney according to Adam Schefter.

Packers signing Xavier McKinney safety from the NY Giants... Thats a better move then releasing A Jones..

I get that this Is a business, but AJ was good for the town, team, and fans. Not to mention the chemistry with Love. I really hate this move as much as I did when Taylor went to the Saints years ago Pray he doesn't end up in the division and stick in our asses twice a year. thanks for everything AJ!!

You just don't have too many playmakers on a team offensively or defensively. Jones gave us everything the OL/ TE's and WR's didn't in their blocking efforts...Special...Special player and person also. We will still have to draft a RB in round 2 to get close to Jones traits. The Ol is going to have to be better for Jacobs to get close to Jones yards per run. God Speed Mr. Jones...You will be missed.

I admit our front office is pretty good at what they do. Sometimes I don't like how they treat human beings. A J and Jordy Nelson are exhibits 1 and 2. I think the locker room will take a less than positive view of our front office from this. Memories are long. I'll wait to hear the details before I have a fit.

What a team player, heart and soul of the team. The intentions were to bring him back, but when your agent thinks that there is more out there for you, I guess you have to listen. A J will be missed, wait for his number to added to our hall of fame

It's a young man's game. Packers have $33 million in cap space all of a sudden.

Sorry to see Jones go as he was both a productive player on the field and a class act all the way. Everyone will miss the sombrero, too.

The Packers released him because they couldn't reach agreement in trying to deal with the cap hit.

But in Jacobs, we get a RB with both speed and power--he's a workhorse back. The Raiders, I guess couldn't afford him because the signed their center to a big contract, and then went out and signed Christian Wilkins to a humongous deal, over $100 million (!).

Love this guy.
He is a true Green Bay Packer.
Dude is all attitude all the time.
In my opinion AJ is one of the all time great Packers players on and off the field.
Going to miss you dude.

I guess the "Burn it all down" crowd had more supporters than I thought. It didn't stop with Joe Barry. It carried right on through to Savage and Campbell, and now Runyan and Jones, who has played like HOFer in many regards. You have to wonder who's next? Smith? Alexander?

I'm sad to see that we're paying over $3M to Newman this year but we can't find a way to keep Runyan. It's enough to make me put on a fedora and ask what the hell is going on out there.? We don't even have enough depth to be called 'wafer thin' and we couldn't pay Runyan as much as we're paying Newman? I'm shaking my head over this.

I think the locker room will understand that they couldn't pay him what he wanted for a supreme, but part-time player.

If he can't find what he wants on the open market, perhaps he comes back to finish his GB HOF run....

One can hope!

They'll bring him back if he can't find the payday he's looking for.

Sure it sucks, but think of it like this...

Last season, Jones went down in WEEK 1 on a NON-CONTACT injury after NINE carries and 2 catches. (And people bitch that LaFleur doesn't work him enough!)

He could manage only 20 carries in the next six games.

After week 14, he had rushed for 298 yards.

In all, he was inactive for six games.

Obviously, the end of his season was awesome, but how much confidence can the team really have going into a new season?

So sad to see Bakt and Jonsy going, but the NFL is an ugly business and the way it goes. I trust Gute with these decisions. Going young and a big roster reset. GPG!

The only hope I have is that he checks the market and nobody want to pay him the salary he's getting or looking for, he therefore changes his mind and comes back to us at the price the Packers were willing to pay. One can only hope. The surprise Rasul Douglas trade hurt, this surprise hurts ten times more.

Free Agency frenzy struck
at 1265 Lombardi…
Hope I‘m wrong and Gute is right , but the two signings feel much to aggressive for me.

Ask yourself, history notwithstanding, straight trade Aaron Jones for Josh Jacobs AND you get some cap relief. You make that deal?

I do.

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Geez, today has been a rollercoaster day. UP with signing J.Jacobs. Way DOWN by releasing A.J. Way UP signing McKinney, DOWN seeing J.Runyan go to the Giants. So I'm waiting for next UP? How 'bout a OL? Another DB? A nasty dawg LB? And all before the draft. Hopefully that will be alot of UPs as we refill the Packer gas tank!!

Guter is busy these days. Finally, PackerNation has been waiting for this for years. Other years, it's been crickets at this time.

NFL.com has AJ in the 60's for available free agents, below Yosh and Runyan. Maybe our view of Jones isn't what the rest of the NFL might think of Jones. While I would have been tickled pink if both sides could come to an agreement on a 2024 salary, it would come with a lot of concern about his availability given 2023. Small chance he returns if the market isn't there, but the Packers can't be the only team looking at a 30YO RB (no matter what mileage) and not wanting to pay top dollar with the risk.

The Heart and Soul of the team, he was more that that, and this sucks, it really sucks!
This falls on Mark "We're Not Idiots" Murphy! Back-loading too many contract to keep Rodgers one year too many. He sure looks like an idiot today.
Jones was with all the kids in CA last summer helping Love get it all together, how many guys would do that?
You could see on the sidelines the respect those guys had for him and how they looked up to him, who's going to fill that spot?
They should have fired Murphy, they couldn't have used the money to pay AJ, but it would make me feel better
You'd better make this work Gutey, if not, I hope it costs you your job!

This hurts.

He is great when he is healthy but for that salary he has to be healthy more. Paying for Jacobs isn't the answer as he has had a lot of carries in his career.

Wow, how does Gute walk around with Ca honeys that big? We all are going to miss AJ, but I give Gute a lot of credit for plugging in Josh. Sounds like a very good exchange. There are/were a lot of RBs in FA and most were getting resigned around the $10k range, so AJ's $17k was not doable. I'm glad Gute could do this and hope that this is just another example of his genius.

Aaron Jones was a person of great talent, heart and character.
But, he was unavailable approx. 6 games. He is getting older and I would expect
the missed games to increase. GB has to run a business.

Same with Bakh.

MLF your next -

I understand the business end of all of this but it hurts to see Aaron Jones go. He was a great Packer and a great team mate. He was an excellent representative for the Packers on and iff the field. He was also the key to the Packers offense when he was healthy. Will Jacobs be that guy? I'm not very sure about that.

Aaron Jones you will be missed. Thanks, Since '61

Aaron Jones was paid too much for his production and did not seem to want to acknowledge that. He had a hand in this decision by GB.

Hate to see Jones go but the Packers are a young team and need young talent to grow with this team. Dillon isn't the answer either. Pick-up a good RB in FA and another in the draft. I'd like to see a RB with the #58th draft selection unless there was a LB, Safety, or OL you just could not pass up.

Xavier McKinney...Josh Jacobs, welcome to Green Bay!

That said, damn! I was so hoping Aaron Jones could be the next Donald Driver. Ya' know, have an awesome career in Green Bay, retire with a Lombardi, go into the GB Hall of Fame and maybe collect a DWTS Mirror Ball trophy along the way. Perhaps there is a slight chance it could work out this way, but if not, THANK YOU AJones (and you too, DB) for years of carrying the "G" in the right way!

I love the Josh Jacobs signing, but the loss of Jones was unexpected and hurts.
Great player, Great Leader, Great Packer.

I thought they'd try to keep him for another year or two while a young RB took the reigns. I'm guessing that Jones decided he couldn't take yet another "one for the team", and, that's his right- I don't hold it against him- he has restructured and taken less in the past and he doesn't owe it to anyone to do it again. The Packers also have to do what makes the most sense for the Packers in the long term as well, and unfortunately, a 31 year old RB who, as absolutely amazing as he is when he's healthy, has a hard time staying up for the duration of the year is probably a hard pill to swallow at $17 million.

Assuming the Packers will pick up some young RB talent to develop in the draft.. but my only question right now is this: How good is Josh Jacobs in pass pro? Because that is exactly where AJ's absence is going to be felt most, even if it's not the most obvious item under the microscope.

Hoping this is a home run, because losing Aaron Jones is not an easy pill to swallow, even if the prescription was justified.

folks, let's go back to camp opening day when AR showed up with 3 seasons to go-he spoke for 41 minutes about GB mgmt. Here again, we see them showing disloyalty to their star players. Many of us are huge A. Jones fans and they ask him (again) to take a pay cut. Are you serious? Dont look now, but who do you think got you to the playoffs???
Holding out hope, somehow, GB gets Jones back--pay the man that's your star offensive player, who is a locker room leader and most popular player on the whole team. He showed his loyalty when he took a friendly deal back when his big "show me kt" came up 3 years ago. And, you're gonna ask him to take a pay cut? 50%??? is this true. Rosenhouse better watch his back, what an SOB he is now to Packer nation. Sorry, gotta say what needs to be said.

Yes, probably a good move getting McKinney. Shoot, i'd rather have a tested vet than spin the draft dice 3 times. Still believe jettisoning Douglas, was a tough move-Hah, who trusts GB picking anything decent in the 3rd round??! Great move getting him off the AZ practice squad, but isn't it ironic he single handedly won the AZ game that year!! So, you let a talented, "ill show you what i can do" acquisition, walk because you got him on the cheap? I don't trust GB to parlay this trade into anything worth while----let's watch them trade away this particular draft pick for something earlier perhaps. We shall see.

I will always love the UTEP Miner Aaron Jones, GB has done him wrong, unless they can bring him back and work a deal. But folks like Rosenhouse, no bueno!!!! When i meet Aaron (and, i will someday) i'll tell him i don't blame him for hiring Drew, it's all a business and GB needed to treat you like family. They didn't at this point!

Like everyone else here, I have unlimited respect for Aaron Jones. As a player and a person.

However, it is a fact that NFL RB's just do not continue to produce into their 30's. They take a savage beating with hits coming from several directions at once. Jones may be an exception to this longevity rule, but is it responsible to bet $12,000,000 a year on that?

The Packers kept Aaron Rodgers one year too long at an elite salary and it cost them. They may have learned a hard lesson from that.

Also, they signed a younger, proven replacement in Jacobs. And they have a lot of draft capital to bring aboard some younger guys for long term.

Just don't want to see Aaron Jones in a purple uniform. Still makes me sick thinking about Favre in that get-up.

What this is-is a big lesson: Any time any player wants to be highest paid player...No matter how good they are...there is another price to pay. QB's wanting 200 Mill, etc means 3-5 players will not be there anymore who directly help get him his money in the first place. Better to leave some money on the table for your boys also. Too bad, it happens every year. Love needs paid and so will some WR's soon enough. I like the Safety pick-up and I like the hard running RB also...GPG....Bigger Badder OL in the draft Gute and a couple Safeties and LB's...A #2 pick for Wright to replace jones vision, wiggle and burst.

AAAAAAND just like that, he’s a Viking. 😬

Jones to the Vikings for $7 million. Why in the hell didn't we trade him instead of releasing him? Now we got nothing for him and the bonus of playing against him twice. Surely some team farther away would have given us a day 3 pick for Jones and reworked his contract. This is a huge, stupid, expensive mistake and tarnishes 2 really good moves in Jacobs and McKinney.

We will have 1/2 dozen really good RB options @ #88 or #91, depending which type of back we want. Jacobs is already a bigger back that should be able to get tough yards, so maybe we take a Jones clone instead. Wright, Irving, Lloyd, and Ray Davis should all be there. As well as Guerendo, Allen, and Estime who have a little less wiggle, but more power too.