Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers is now a New York Jet after the team finalized a massive deal with the Green Bay Packers Monday.

The Packers and Jets agreed to a deal that includes “major compensation,” a first-round pick swap, a second-round pick this year, and a conditional first-round pick in 2024, according to NFL.com insider Ian Rapoport. Both teams finalized the deal for the four-time MVP and Super Bowl-winning quarterback after weeks of rumors that Rodgers was being shipped to New York.

🚨 🚨 🚨 Sources: The #Packers and #Jets have agreed to the mega-trade, sending 4-time MVP Aaron Rodgers to the #Jets for major compensation.

Finally!

The deal includes a 2nd rounder this year, a 1st round pick swap this year, and a conditional 1st rounder in 2024. pic.twitter.com/QfOWggeAU6

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 24, 2023

The Packers will send Rodgers, their 2023 first-round pick (15th overall), and 2023 fifth-round pick to the Jets, and will get the Jets’ 2023 first-round pick (13th overall), 2023 second-round pick, and 2023 sixth-round pick in return, ESPN reported. The Packers will also get the Jets’ 2024 second-round pick if Rodgers plays 65% of the plays this season, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Rodgers, who turns 40 in December, told sports analyst Pat McAfee on the “Pat McAfee Show” last month that it was his “intention” to play for the Jets next season. The trade rumors lasted for weeks as the teams negotiated and hashed out details of the blockbuster trade.

The trade marks the second time in the past 15 years that the Packers have sent their star QB to the Jets. Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre was traded to the Jets in 2008 after playing 16 seasons in Green Bay. Favre was also 39 years old when he was traded.

Rodgers was drafted by the Packers out of the University of California in 2005. After sitting under Favre for a few years, he became the starting quarterback in 2008 after Favre’s trade. Just two years later, Rodgers led the Packers to their fourth Super Bowl title in 2011. The quarterback continued his dominance in the NFL, winning four MVPs and setting passing records. Last season, Rodgers became the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for 500 touchdowns.

Hall of Fame Jets QB Joe Namath reportedly gave Rodgers his blessing to wear No. 12 since that’s the number Rodgers donned with the Packers, but Rodgers is expected to wear No. 8 — the number he wore in college — when he takes the field for the Jets, a source told ESPN.

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In perhaps the least surprising news of all time, CNN’s public relations department issued a statement saying that now ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon did not tell the truth about how he was let go from the network Monday morning.

Lemon claimed that network executives never “directly” told him that he was being canned. CNN says that’s “inaccurate.”

“He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter,” CNN’s communications team tweeted.

Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate. He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) April 24, 2023

If that’s true, Lemon is nothing if not consistent. Rarely were his days’ recaps on his prime time show — since canceled — ever accurate. Thanks to the team over at the Media Research Center, here’s a recap of Lemon’s “worst” moments:

Congrats @donlemon on a long career of lies and insanity on @CNN.

Read more of his worst moments here 👇 https://t.co/R4mjv1Expi pic.twitter.com/tVHxp1oV5m

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) April 24, 2023

On Monday, Lemon said, “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN. I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.”

He also claimed that he was effectively blindsided by his firing and was not “given any indication” that he would be let go. He blamed “larger issues at play,” without divulging more details.

Then he said, “They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best” — which should have been the biggest tell that his comment was “inaccurate.”

pic.twitter.com/8PyLqvS0d7

— Don Lemon (@donlemon) April 24, 2023

Of course, it’s a bit tricky as to who to trust here: The journalist who helped spread “disinformation” — as the Left loves to say — for so many years, or the network execs who turned “disinformation” into a business model.

Whatever the case, it sure would have been nice to have had CNN’s editorial oversight and instant fact-checking skills put to use when Lemon was still working there.

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