12:55pm: When making his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show today, Rodgers provided further detail on his injury, while adding that his scans yielded encouraging results (video link). As a result, he intends to play on Sunday against the Bears.
11:50am: Not much, if anything, has gone according to plan in 2022 for the Packers, and the team is now at something of a crossroads with respect to their quarterback situation. Aaron Rodgers is dealing with multiple injuries at the moment, leaving his availability for the immediate future in the air. 
The 38-year-old exited Sunday night’s loss to the Eagles with a rib injury, and did not return. That, in turn, came not long after Rodgers publicly acknowledged that he had already been dealing with a broken thumb in his throwing hand for weeks – something he stated would not be sufficient to keep him from playing.
This latest ailment is one that the reigning MVP is likewise aiming to play through, so long as he can recover in time to suit up on Sunday against the Bears. Green Bay sits at 4-8 and therefore faces very long odds to reach the postseason, leading to questions about the fruitfulness of keeping Rodgers in the No. 1 spot at the expense of an extended run with backup Jordan Love. Head coach Matt LaFleur remains committed to the veteran at this point, however.
“Aaron’s the starting quarterback,” LaFleur said, via ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. “He’s battled through a lot throughout the course of his career. It’s pretty well documented, and I think he’s been able to play at a pretty high level through a lot of different situations. So again, we’ll take it one game at a time and make the best decision moving forward.”
Love, drafted in the first round in 2020 to one day succeed Rodgers, has started just one game to date. His level of play in relief of Rodgers on Sunday was impressive, and has led to many calls for a QB swap as the Packers play out the remainder of the season. Looming over this situation from a big-picture perspective is the relative uncertainty surrounding Rodgers’ retirement plans, in spite of significant term and money remaining on his deal beyond 2022.
The Packers will have their bye week following the Bears game, something which could play a large role in determining their Week 13 starter. LaFleur (who, when speaking to the media, also doubled down on his support of maligned defensive coordinator Joe Barry) acknowledged that testing on Rodgers’ injury was still somewhat inconclusive, but added that “he’s feeling a little bit better.” So long as he continues to recover, the matter of who will start under center moving forward will likely be resolved.
So he’ll remain the starter if healthy, but he already isn’t healthy, so no commitments. Of course, given the state of the Bears defense, he could probably beat them with his thumb in a cast.
He would beat them with no thumbs, throwing underhand the whole game. He owns them.
Forget the cast, he’d beat my Bears if he were in an iron lung.
Is Fields going to play? Look what Hurts did to the Packers’ D.
At this point, play whoever will lose. Time to tank for draft position. Let Aaron get his hand and everything else fixed.
Can’t fix what is really wrong with him. His mind and attitude. Pure Prima Donna
He was like that at cal too
True but he’s still a 4 time mvp and super bowl winning QB that the packers have under contract for another 2 years. So either get him healthy to play next season for GB or trade him and move on to Love.
“Tank for draft position”? Nonsense. As Dan Wiederer, Bears reporter for the Chicago Tribune, astutely observed, “Sure, a large portion of the fan base may be fist-pumping after every loss, celebrating the Bears’ climb up the draft board and the potential talent windfall that could bring next spring. But embracing failure and squandering opportunities to grow and develop can be a dangerous proposition.” The Bears have 5 more opportunities to “grow and develop” this season, 5 more games to hone their skills so that when draft picks are added into the mix they will be part of a group that is better than worse, committed to winning not losing. The same can be said for every other team that imagines it can get better by losing more.
I can see both sides of this (af and real’s points) to an extent. I don’t really agree with going out of the way to lose more games, but I have no issue with using the final 5 or 6 games to get a better idea what some guys might provide going into next year.
Tanking in the hope of moving 5 spots up the draft order is poor planning..but, if the coaching philosophy/staff remains the same next year I don’t think it matters what they do the rest of this season.
Exactly. One draft isn’t going to fix a team, and you need the young players you already have playing well.
It’s rather ludicrous for players to be asking for fully guaranteed contracts while simultaneously agreeing to go into “tank” mode.
Start Love you feckless organisation
The moms of feckerless organisation.
Season is over, start Love. He looked as good on his 2 drives as Rodgers has looked the last 2 months.
If you have to win a game tomorrow do you start rodgers or Jimmy g
Farve, I mean Rodgers is about to be in the — do anything to keep Love off the field mode. Who knows, might just be the slap in the face that will….. Never mind he is just going to be that chick that you can’t get rid of.
Something something sample size.
Stick a fork in him, he’s done!
I’m all for him playing. This is a chance for him to further own the bears. God I hate the bears
Personally, I’d rather Love plays and he balls out.
Should one of the Bears defensive linemen get to him and give him a good shot in the ribs, I’m going to guess you might hear him say, “Look, I want a do-over…”
Rodgers passer rating has been 128.0 or better in each of his past 5 outings against the Bears so I’m really shocked he would want to start Sunday.
Does it matter? Rodgers has mentally checked out and Love has no idea how the professional game is played, thus the season is over.