Aaron Rodgers is again within the public eye — and on Instagram.
After the Jets quarterback attended UFC 303 on Saturday in his first public look since skipping the crew’s obligatory minicamp for a reported journey to Egypt, he shared a photograph on Instagram of him sitting with former Packers teammate Marcedes Lewis on the occasion in Las Vegas.
“Me and Huge Canine #UFC303,” Rodgers mentioned in an image he posted of the 2 on Instagram whereas octagon-side on the occasion.
Rodgers was seen all through the occasion, being placed on the published a number of instances and getting a loud pop from the group, whereas the promotion additionally confirmed him strolling backstage.
Lewis and Rodgers persistently attend UFC occasions collectively, together with UFC 302 in Newark final month.
Rodgers missed the Jets’ obligatory minicamp from June 11-13 for an occasion head coach Robert Saleh mentioned was vital to the quarterback.
The absence was unexcused, although the coach mentioned he and Rodgers are on the identical web page.
Some former and present gamers crushed Rodgers for lacking obligatory practices.
“I believe it’s a foul search for your chief, for no matter motive, to go and miss an unexcused absence,” ex-Patriots receiver Julian Edelman mentioned to Collin Cowherd on “The Herd,” noting that Tom Brady wasn’t lacking these occasions on the back-end of his profession.
Rodgers was additionally apparently in Los Angeles within the week main as much as battle evening, as ex-Packer receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling instructed “The Herd” co-host Jason McIntyre that Rodgers had texted him about doing drills collectively.
“Me and Aaron have been nice mates since I had been in Inexperienced Bay. I hit him up, instructed him I used to be popping out to LA, and mentioned, ‘Let’s run some routes,’” Valdes-Scantling mentioned.
“So, we obtained it in. Went out to some highschool and ran some routes collectively. We’re good. It was good.”
Rodgers instructed reporters after the Jets’ season ended that the crew wanted to “get bulls–t out of the constructing,” earlier than this newest distraction.
“If you wish to be a profitable group and put your self able to win championships and be aggressive, every little thing that you just do issues,” Rodgers mentioned in January. “The bull—t that has nothing to do with profitable must get out of the constructing. That would be the focus transferring ahead.”
