New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he has "felt good all spring" while recovering from the season-ending Achilles injury he suffered last September. "My Achilles feels good," Rodgers told NBC Sports at the 2024 American Century Championship in Stateline, Nevada. "I felt really good at the end of last year.
Then there's always that plateau part. It's just about getting back into it. "I felt good all spring, had a nice OTAs, had a beautiful trip to Egypt, and this is like the last marker.
Summer's over on Sunday." Summer's over Sunday for Aaron Rodgers. đ pic.
twitter.com/wequhaBoU5 Rodgers skipped the Jets' mandatory minicamp in June, an absence that was unexcused but that he communicated with the team beforehand, per Zach Braziller of the New York Post . Rodgers confirmed reports that he had missed the minicamp to visit Egypt, a trip that SNY's Connor Hughes reported did not cause tension with Jets leadership or Rodgers' teammates.
Before the trip, Rodgers joined voluntary Jets OTAs in early June without limitations, per team reporter Eric Allen . The quarterback said during those activities that he was feeling "90 percent himself." "Mentally, I'm there.
Physically, I just got to get that confidence to let it loose and I'm getting close to that," Rodgers said in June (h/t Allen.) "It's a process. Anytime you come back from injury whether it's an extremity or internal or even a concussion, there are certain benchmarks you need to hit in order to feel better and each one has its own challenges.
These practices, the first two, have helped. "I feel much better today than I did yesterday and I'm sure I'll feel better next week, and the following week and training camp will be great. And at some point, it will just be a distant memory and I'll feel like 100 percent myself.
Right now, I'm 90 percent myself and 10 percent not sure what's going on with various parts of my body." Now that Rodgers is back stateside, the Jets will hope the quarterback is closer to 100 percent when he rejoins the team on July 23 as veterans report to training camp in Florham Park, New Jersey..
