Garrett Wilson & Sauce Gardner Confirm Feelings on Aaron Glenn With Big Move Despite Aaron Rodgers’ Jets Fallout

At 1 Jets Drive, something’s changing. You can almost sense it before you see it. The cameras remain still. The headlines have gone cold. But there is action behind closed doors; it is subtle, purposeful, and completely unexpected. Aaron Rodgers is gone. The turf still bears the scars from the catastrophe of the previous season. A new coach enters, a new tone emerges, and all of a sudden, everything feels more difficult. Every decision is just louder.

This isn’t your typical off-season. This is an allegiance test. Behind those walls, boundaries are being established as the outside world disputes rebuild vs. reload, culture vs. chaos. Not in words. Not on Twitter. But with presence.

And what happened this week? It was more than just scheduling. It was a declaration. There are workouts that are optional, and then there is this. Jets Media dropped the headline on X that sparked the energy: “GREAT NEWS of seeing both Sauce Gardner & Garrett Wilson at the voluntary Offseason workouts ! ” A video accompanied the post, and in it, Jets personality Richie Mollura couldn’t hold back: “We had some really good news coming out of the New York Jets this past week… These meetings are voluntary. Therefore, not everybody has to show up. But guess who has showed up? Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner…”

“This shows you the type of players that Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner are. It shows you the type of human beings they are… I think that the Jets having both Sauce and Garrett in attendance really shows you their commitment to Aaron Glenn. It shows you their commitment to the New York Jets organization.”

GREAT NEWS of seeing both Sauce Gardner & Garrett Wilson at the voluntary Offseason workouts ! pic.twitter.com/hYSjnB7Gh2

— 𝙅𝙀𝙏𝙎 𝙈𝙀𝘿𝙄𝘼 (@NYJets_Media) April 20, 2025

And, before Justin Fields even arrived at JFK, these two players were the team’s franchise faces. The Jets haven’t had a more polished wide receiver since, well, let’s just say, a long time ago than Garrett Wilson. And the shutdown corner, Sauce Gardner, who made the Jets’ defence a must-watch on television right away. Both are eligible for massive new deals. Neither has one. And yet, they didn’t pull a contract holdout move. They didn’t sit out. They clocked in.

That isn’t typical in the NFL nowadays. It’s rare. And, it’s not something to ignore, as SNY’s Connor Hughes stressed: “Noteworthy. Most in his situation would stay away until they get a new deal… They’re both there. Think that says a lot.” It says everything. It indicates that they support Aaron Glenn’s goal, the locker room culture, and one another.

And regardless of whether Fields becomes the quarterback, Sauce and Garrett are making one thing very clear: They aren’t waiting for another person to take the lead. They are the foundation. Their attendance also shows one more thing—the early signs of a locker room that isn’t splintered by the Rodgers fallout. Quite the opposite: it might be healing.

The Aaron Rodgers fallout was ugly, but it didn’t shake the locker room

Two Aarons. But one out of the Jets organization. It took Aaron Glenn exactly two weeks to do what most coaches wouldn’t dare: fire a future Hall of Famer before he ever saw the field again. Like a breakup story from hell, Aaron Rodgers described the incident on The Pat McAfee Show. “I felt like there wasn’t an ample amount of respect in that meeting, but I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised based on some of the things I saw over the two years,” Rodgers said. The meeting was “quick,” “cold,” and “combative.” He flew to Jersey expecting a sit-down. Glenn handed him a pink slip before the espresso even hit the table.

Usually, a locker room is divided by that kind of turmoil. But Sauce and Garrett only responded in sweat and silence. They didn’t tweet support. They didn’t post cryptic emojis. They showed up to work. That move may have said more about Aaron Glenn’s authority than the Rodgers firing itself.

Because Glenn isn’t pursuing friendships, as we now know. Resumes are not his thing. He’s running this team like it’s a tight ship, just like his former teammates predicted. As Anthony Becht said, “He’s going to make sure they weed out anything that shouldn’t be around… so that only the players and coaches uniformly come together for the single purpose of turning that organization around.”

Wilson and Gardner also seem to be fully committed. Even though Garrett is expected to demand a contract worth between $25 and $30 million annually. Even as Sauce looks to rebound from a 2024 drop-off and reassert his top-tier status in Glenn’s defense. Neither is allowing previous drama or contract status to influence the future. Glenn has made his stance known. “You’re not gonna be at the top of your game every year,” he said at the Annual League Meetings. “But the thing is, you thrive and bust your [expletive] to try and do that. He [Sauce] has it in him.”

It’s not a rebuild. It’s a reboot—with new leadership, new expectations, and now, confirmed loyalty from the stars that matter most. The Aaron Rodgers-Glenn fallout may have grabbed headlines, but the real message came days later in quiet form: Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner just showed you where they stand. No fanfare. No holdout. Just two of the most talented players on the roster are walking into camp and betting on a new era.

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