Aaron Rodgers continues his recovery from a torn Achilles tendon by hitting the ground running with a Sunday morning session at the New York Jets practice facility.
While his off-field views are so often at the forefront of everyone’s minds, Rodgers’ focus this weekend was on his preseason preparations as he headed to another workout with his Jets teammates.
Rodgers hasn’t played since the opener of last season, when he tore his Achilles tendon just four times in his career with the New York Jets.
The clip, posted to X by the Jets, shows Rodgers throwing a pass to wide receiver Garrett Wilson, much to the delight of fans.
Alongside the short clip, the caption read: “A little Sunday morning @AaronRodgers12 and @GarrettWilson_V.”
Aaron Rodgers was back at the Jets’ practice facility Sunday morning throwing deep passes
Rodgers’ focus appeared to be on football again after his recent controversial comments
Rodgers throws a deep ball to wide receiver Garrett Wilson, much to the delight of Jets fans
Unsurprisingly, fans flooded the comments section with memes and replies, hailing the duo and getting excited about what could happen in the next twelve months.
On Tuesday, the four-time NFL MVP also admitted that he believes he is now running faster than ever as he enters what he hopes is his first full season with the Jets.
Mail Sport has also been told that Rodgers hopes to spend another two or three years at MetLife despite his injury-plagued start in New York.
“He’s on a mission,” Jets head coach Robert Saleh said last month. “He’s on a mission to do a lot of the things he wanted to do last year, and he won’t stop until he gets it done.”
Recently on the ‘I Can Fly Podcast’, Rodgers said he is ‘excited’ about his return to the field.
“I fell in love with the game again (after joining the Jets) and had it taken away after four games. “I miss being out there, I love competing,” he said.
Rodgers has Dr. Fauci has been accused of causing STDs with the help of the US government in the 1980s
‘Football is my happy place. That’s where I have the most control over my athletic abilities. I missed that last year, really missed that. My heart was broken. I’m looking forward to taking to the field again and – not to the point of life or death – competing with my boys.’
Earlier this week, a video of the 40-year-old Rodgers from last month went viral after he claimed that Dr. Fauci – the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president – helped engineer the sexually transmitted infection epidemic of the 1980s with the support of the federal US government.
“The blueprint, the game plan was created in the 80s,” Rodgers said during a Zoom interview with the Look Into It podcast in March.
Fauci, who led the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the administrations of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, previously addressed the AIDS epidemic more than 40 years ago. During that time, he was often criticized for the government’s response to STDs, as more than 100,000 victims died between 1981 and 1990.
“Create a pandemic, with a virus running wild,” Rodgers continued, adding that “Fauci was given more than $350 million to research this, to come up with drugs, new or repurposed, to address the AIDS pandemic.”
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“And all they came up with was AZT.”
“And if you do even a little bit of research – and I know, I’m not an epidemiologist, I’m not a doctor, I’m not an immunologist, anything – I can read. And I can learn and look up things just like any normal person. I can do my own research, which is so maligned, I can even question the authority,” Rodgers then noted.
The former Super Bowl champion then linked Fauci’s past controversies to the US government’s response to the coronavirus, which is blamed for more than a million deaths in America.
‘But that was the plan at the time: create an environment where only one thing works. Then AZT. Now? Remdesivir,” Rodgers said without backing down, referring to antiviral drugs developed in the wake of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.