Regardless of some current buzz about quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ future, the New York Jets aren’t shutting him down for the remainder of the season.
On Saturday, The Athletic’s Dianna Russini reported the Jets had been contemplating inserting Rodgers on injured reserve or benching him “over the subsequent few weeks.” Nonetheless, in his Monday information convention, Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich mentioned he would “completely” begin once they host the Seattle Seahawks in Week 13.
“All I can say — and also you’d should ask Aaron if he is absolutely wholesome — however he is higher off at the moment than he has been of late,” Ulbrich mentioned, per ESPN’s Rich Cimini. “So he is positively feeling more healthy than he has most likely been for the previous month. And a wholesome Aaron Rodgers is an Aaron Rodgers all of us love. So I am enthusiastic about what that appears like.”
On Sunday, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported Rodgers has battled hamstring, knee and ankle points all through the season and was “resisting” medical scans. Ulbrich mentioned that declare is “information to me.”
Whereas the Jets are rolling with Rodgers for now, that does not imply he’ll begin for them in 2025.
Rodgers turns 41 on Dec. 2 and hasn’t appeared like a four-time MVP this season. The previous Inexperienced Bay Packers star ranks twenty seventh within the league in completion proportion (63.4%), twenty fourth in QBR (51.4) and fifteenth in passing yards (2,442) via 11 begins.
The Jets (3-8) are third within the AFC East and can possible miss the playoffs for a 14th consecutive season.
Cimini shared that an nameless supply can be “shocked” if Jets proprietor Woody Johnson lets Rodgers return to the membership subsequent season.
Rodgers might not wish to play for the Jets, both. After firing HC Robert Saleh and basic supervisor Joe Douglas, the membership appears to be in disarray.
Though the Jets aren’t benching him, Rodgers’ future with the group nonetheless appears murky.
