Adam Schefter appears to have followed Aaron Rodgers’ phone request: ‘Lose my number’

Last month, in an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Aaron Rodgers revealed that he told the ESPN NFL insider to “lose my number” while Adam Schefter was digging into trad…

Adam Schefter responded to a joke a reporter made asking Aaron Rodgers for his phone number at the QB’s introductory press conference on Wednesday.Getty Images

“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 the source and get it right. That’s all. I was just trying to do my job.”

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