Aaron Rodgers is days away from his second-season debut for the New York Jets. After his brutal damage final season, the Jets quarterback wasn’t certain there was going to be a Yr 2.
Jets followers vividly bear in mind the second Rodgers went down with a season-ending Achilles damage 4 snaps into the 2023 marketing campaign.
Rodgers lately sat down with former QB Alex Smith on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown.” Smith requested Rodgers what he remembered from the day he bought injured.
The four-time MVP admitted that he really thought his profession was over.
“I knew once I was on the bottom that one thing was improper,” Rodgers instructed Smith. “And generally you get drilled and you understand one thing is off, and also you simply sort of hope you rise up. … However once I stood up, I knew it after which I simply went down.
“Every part flashing earlier than your eyes: the 18 years at Inexperienced Bay, the commerce, the spring, the thrill, the summer time, town, Exhausting Knocks, run on the sector with the flag for the primary time, 9/11. Yeah, simply considering that’s going to be the final time. … Within the coaching room I actually thought, ‘Rattling, that’s how I’m going to exit.’”
