sport news ESPN's Adam Schefter hits back at Aaron Rodgers over text telling the analyst ... trends now

sport news ESPN's Adam Schefter hits back at Aaron Rodgers over text telling the analyst ... trends now
sport news ESPN's Adam Schefter hits back at Aaron Rodgers over text telling the analyst ... trends now

sport news ESPN's Adam Schefter hits back at Aaron Rodgers over text telling the analyst ... trends now

ESPN analyst Adam Schefter has hit back at Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback told him to 'lose my number' amid New York Jets trade rumors. 

Appearing on the Pat McAfee show last week to reveal he does want to leave the Green Bay Packers for New York, Rodgers took aim at ESPN's NFL insider Schefter, who recently tried to text the quarterback in the course of his reporting. 

'Ask Schefter what I texted him when he somehow got my number,' Rodgers said, adding: 'Lose my number.' 

Schefter quickly confirmed the report on Twitter by sharing a grab of the text message.  

The reporter has since insisted that he was just trying to do his job when explaining the text situation to NBC Sports' Peter King. 

Adam Schefter hit back at Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback told him to 'lose my number'

Aaron Rodgers took aim at the ESPN NFL insider on the Pat McAfee show last week

Adam Schefter hit back at Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback told him to 'lose my number'

The four-time MVP told Schefter to 'lose my number' after he =texted him about trade rumors

The four-time MVP told Schefter to 'lose my number' after he =texted him about trade rumors

King revealed that he had reached out to Schefter for his side of the story to which the analyst had responded, saying: 'I've had his number for a while. I never once used it. Trey Wingo reported [last Monday] he was "hearing" that Rodgers to the Jets was done. The day he did it, ESPN was going live from 3 to 5 on free agency. Everyone was saying Aaron Rodgers to the Jets is done. We're on the air for two hours. 

'I call the Jets, I call the Pack, I call Rodgers' advisers. No one's saying anything. So, I'm sitting there on the set with Dianna Russini. "Should I text Rodgers?" She said, "Yeah, text him." 

'At 3:35, I texted him. I say, basically: "Have you informed the Jets that you'd like to play there? I wanted to open it up to you." He didn't respond for maybe 10 minutes. So then I called the number, got sent to voice mail. Then he texts me, "Lose my number. Good try tho." 

'That's all. He's the one who says the media's getting it wrong. I wanted to go to source and get it right. That's all. I was just trying to do my job.'

King then added: 'I don't know how you do the job any differently, frankly.'

Rodgers had previously hit out at Schefter along with fellow NFL insider Ian Rapoport over their

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