Brian Gutekunst says he never promised Aaron Rodgers he would trade him after the 2021 season.

When Rodgers returned to the Green Bay Packers last July from his offseason hiatus, both sides made it easier to separate this offseason based on adjustments to his contract.

It has been widely believed that Rodgers and the Packers had a handshake agreement that if the quarterback still wanted out after the 2021 season they would trade him.

"That was not something I told him," Gutekunst, who has full control over roster moves, said. "Again, I think the whole conversation with Aaron last season before he came back was that, regardless, at the end of this past season, that we would sit down as a group and we would work it out one way or another."