AARON Rodgers shared how difficult it was to deal with his Week 1 Achilles injury from last season. The New York Jets star quarterback, 40, suffered the season-ending injury four snaps into his debut with the NFL team in 2023. Rodgers will be preparing for his 20th season in the NFL.
He'll hope to play his first full season with the Jets after his disastrous injury on the season-opener Monday Night Football game against the Buffalo Bills last year. In an interview with Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer , the four-time MVP Rodgers opened up about his struggles from the injury which lasted more than a week. "The low point was not just sitting in the training room at MetLife, after it happened," Rodgers said.
“It was flying home [to California] and then really the first 13 days not being mobile. Read More on NFL "It was hard. I had surgery out there with Dr.
[Neal] ElAttrache. Having people take care of me, and I can’t really move, it’s a whole ordeal to just go to the bathroom and sleep . "You’re in pain.
I’m not a big pain med guy. There were definitely some low points. “Then watching the team struggle was hard, knowing what we built through the offseason and training camp, when people got to see the energy and the enthusiasm through Hard Knocks.
"There was a lot of excitement around our squad. There were definitely some low moments there." Most read in American Football The injury also caused Rodgers to get the perspective of how life after football would look lik.