Aaron Rodgers Reveals One Huge Regret Over Play That Ended 2023 Season

Aaron Rodgers will likely (for New York Jets fans, hopefully) throw a lot of passes toward star wide receiver Garrett Wilson this season. But Rodgers wishes he threw at least one more to Wilson before his season came crashing down in 2023.

Jets fans keenly remember how Rodgers played just four snaps before he suffered a season-ending in Week 1 of last season. The 4-time MVP got sacked by Buffalo Bills pass rusher Leonard Floyd after he took too long surveying the field.

Some felt like Rodgers should have passed to an open Wilson, who had cut toward the middle of the field. In Ian O’Connor's book entitled “Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers,” the Jets QB explained why he didn't pass to Wilson -- and later regretted it.

“I felt like pre-snap that the safety was going to come down, so I think I played it all a little bit too quick, And I was thinking about getting it backside to the under [receiver]. So, I probably should have just thrown it right to Garrett,” Rodgers told O'Connor in the book, via the New York Post's Ryan Dunleavy.

Rodgers explained that he was fearful of Bills safety Micah Hyde, who was hovering behind Wilson.

“Garrett really flattened off his route, and I thought if he goes vertical at all … because I thought [Micah Hyde] was going to crash down on that,” Rodgers said in the book. “So, I kinda looked left, and I was going to come back and throw the under to the right. I almost threw it to [Allen Lazard],” Rodgers continued.

There are a lot of what-ifs for Rodgers and the Jets last season. But all the team and its veteran QB can do is move forward.