The New York Jets went into the 2024 NFL season hoping that a healthy Aaron Rodgers at quarterback would be able to help the team improve on a 7-10 2023 campaign. While Rodgers remained healthy enough to play in all 17 games, it seems that there was tension on the offensive side of the ball, especially with how the former Green Bay Packers legend wanted to operate.

“There was tension on offense in 2024, especially after star wide receiver Davante Adams arrived in a midseason trade, two sources said,” ESPN’s Rich Cimini wrote while discussing how New York is trying to reinvent itself around quarterback Justin Fields. In October of the 2024 season, the Jets traded a 2025 third-round pick to the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for Adams, but the chemistry of the team shifted in a negative way.

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“Adams and Rodgers were close from their Packers days, and there was a sense that Rodgers favored him in the passing offense,” Cimini continued. “In fact, Adams was their most targeted player over his 11 games with the team — 25 more than Garrett Wilson over that span. Occasionally, Rodgers and Adams were heard talking between plays, with Rodgers soliciting input from Adams on what routes he wanted to run. ‘That frustrated people at times,’ one source said.”

While Adams has had some interesting moments over the course of his career, he is still one of the better wide receivers in the NFL and still had a great connection with Rodgers. Rodgers and Adams had solid performances during the 2024 season with the Jets, but it seemed like how close the duo were rubbed the rest of the players in the offense the wrong way.

Wilson finished the season with 101 receptions for 1,104 yards and seven touchdowns, but prior to Week 7 when Adams played his first game for New York, the former Ohio State Buckeye had 41 catches for 399 yards and three touchdowns. Prior to the tension that came with Rodgers and Adams running the show for the second half of the season, Wilson was on pace for his best season in the NFL with a projection of 116 receptions for 1,130 yards and at least eight touchdowns.

This article originally appeared on Jets Wire: Jets had tension on offense with Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams in 2024