Aaron Rodgers indicated after Sunday night’s comeback victory that he expects to be available for the Packers’ Week 2 contest against the Vikings, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (Twitter link). Rodgers, of course, left last night’s game in the first half with a knee injury, but reappeared in the third quarter and led Green Bay to an improbable win.
Rodgers re-entered Sunday’s game with sporting an air cast typically associated with knee sprains, per Rapoport. He’ll undergo more testing over the next few days, and is expected to experience a bit of soreness as he recovers. However, the Packers boast one of the league’s most conservative medical staffs, says Rapoport, so the club likely wouldn’t have allowed Rodgers back on the field if any risk still existed.
Green Bay trailed 17-0 at halftime in its season opener, and fell behind 20-0 before a Mason Crosby third quarter field goal once again cut the lead to 17 points. Rodgers, amazingly, tossed three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, including a 75-yarder to Randall Cobb that sealed the win.
Rodgers, 34, agreed to a four-year extension late last month which made him the NFL’s highest-paid player at $33.5MM per year.
Stud.
The Vikings aren’t the team you want to play when you’re hobbled…
The Vikings also aren’t the team you want to play with an inexperienced backup QB either, so I’ll take Rodgers
49ers were able to move the ball pretty well against them. 330 yards isn’t a bad showing and if the 49ers didn’t turn the ball over 4 times they win that game. Not to mention Rodgers dominated a top 8 defense in Chicago.
Not sure if Rodgers will stay healthy long enough to earn his pay raise but Bear fans have to be delighted with what they saw from Mack in that game.
Yep…and he went to the 2nd place locker room just as he did often in Oakland
Too bad the bears still can’t score. 1 offensive TD and a QB that choked twice at the end of the game on 4th down.
Great defense….same crappy offense.
Packer fan here. Really wanted them to go after Mack. Have to hand it to the Bears, good on them, but boy he’d look good in green and gold. That’s just a mistake by the front office. You see a sure thing like Mack and you give up lottery picks in future drafts for that sure thing. Not rocket science. He’s a clear difference maker on defense. Would’ve been the Reggie White of this decade.
Yes, because we can totally afford the highest paid defensive and offensive players on the same team