{"id":109029,"date":"2021-03-29T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=109029"},"modified":"2021-03-29T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:30:24","slug":"nfl-rumors-new-england-patriots-wont-trade-for-jimmy-garoppolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/29\/nfl-rumors-new-england-patriots-wont-trade-for-jimmy-garoppolo\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Rumors: New England Patriots Won\u2019t Trade For Jimmy Garoppolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers shook the NFL world on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/26\/trade-alert-2021-nfl-draft-shake-up\/\" target=\"_self\">trading a king\u2019s ransom<\/a> to move up to the third-overall pick. Everyone in the world knows that they\u2019re going to draft a quarterback, meaning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GaroJi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Garoppolo<\/a> might not be long for the west coast. However, if the 49ers plan on moving him, it won\u2019t be to the New England Patriots. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1376218724034871301?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to<\/a> ESPN\u2019s Jordan Schultz, the Patriots are \u201cnot pursuing\u201d the quarterback and are content to enter the season with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=NewtCa00,NewtCa20&amp;search=Cam+Newton&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Newton<\/a> as the starter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Patriots<\/a> are not pursuing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#49ers<\/a> QB Jimmy Garoppolo, per sources. Cap space isn\u2019t there and obviously Cam Newton will return. Additionally, the draft is flush with QBs. No Jimmy GQ reunion for the Pats in foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1376218724034871301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;5784&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2>NFL Rumors: New England Patriots Out on Jimmy Garoppolo<\/h2>\n<p>Bill Belichick is obviously fond of Garoppolo and reportedly offered as much as a second-round pick for his services earlier in the offseason. However, that happened when New England had upwards of $65 million in available cap space and didn\u2019t have Cam Newton under contract. Since then, the Patriots <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/12\/cam-newton-signs-with-new-england-patriots-2\/\" target=\"_self\">re-signed Newton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/21\/ranking-new-england-patriots-free-agent-signings\/\" target=\"_self\">went absolutely wild<\/a> on the free-agent market. The team currently has just over $12.6 million in cap space, and acquiring Garoppolo would eat into that remaining money.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t to say that the Patriots will exclusively roll with Newton in 2021. The veteran quarterback is better than he looked last year, but he\u2019s not a long-term solution at the position. Even if the Patriots can\u2019t get one of the elite quarterbacks in this class, they will still invest in someone like Alabama\u2019s Mac Jones in the first round or Florida\u2019s Kyle Trask in the second.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, the 49ers do not appear interested in moving Garoppolo, at least in the short term. Head coach Kyle Shanahan reportedly believes that his team is a Super Bowl contender with a healthy quarterback, and Garoppolo has proven capable of solid play when on the field. 2022 might be a different story, but it sounds like the 49ers plan on having Garoppolo under center for at least one more year.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"iRSHFT9IR8ttW06rxQZFhg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1282718236\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'iRSHFT9IR8ttW06rxQZFhg',sig:'M3DCyww_EqRJxXCj8X85Bucvx4hjhRfZs8_OZAG0jfE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1282718236',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to NFL rumors originating from ESPN&#8217;s Jordan Schultz, the New England Patriots will not trade for Jimmy Garoppolo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":109030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,31],"tags":[401,7292,7383],"class_list":["post-109029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-49ers","tag-jimmy-garoppolo","tag-new-england-patriots-rumors","tag-san-francisco-49ers-rumors"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}