Aaron Rodgers, the Jets new star acquisition, left the Monday Night Football game against the Bills and certainly will not be back anytime soon or at all this year.
He suffered an ankle injury while being sacked on the first series. Rodgers sustained the injury after being sacked by veteran pass rusher Leonard Floyd on a first-and-10 with 11:40 remaining in the first quarter.
Rodgers went into the blue medical tent to be evaluated, but would soon get carted off for X-rays. Rodgers received his x-rays and had an x-ray on his foot. The exact nature of the injury wasn’t known at the time, but it did not look good. Coach Robert Saleh said the Jets believe Aaron Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles on Monday night.
The injury changes the Jets’ championship destiny, perhaps Rodgers’ career, and the compensation coming to the Green Bay Packers from the April trade.
Names like Carson Wentz, Matt Ryan, Cam Newton, and Joe Flacco were floated as a possible replacements. Jemele Hill decided to go with Colin Kaepernick, who hasn’t played a single game since the end of the 2016 season.
“There’s a QB right there in New Jersey who took a team to a Super Bowl and a NFC championship game. Rhymes with Happernick,” pundit Jemele Hill wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Think you mean the same QB who was hurt and then reclaimed his starting spot as soon as he was healthy. I know this will shock you, but most QBs need to be surrounded by good players. And when he no longer had that terrific defense in his last season, he threw ::checks notes:: 17 TDs and 4 INTs,” Hill added in response to another X user.
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Kaepernick has not played since the 2016 season. He had 2,241 passing yards, 16 passing touchdowns with two more on the ground, and only four interceptions.
A torn Achilles would end the 39-year-old’s season, a crushing blow for the Jets and for Rodgers, who hoped a change of scenery would mean a change in his championship fortunes after winning one Super Bowl in 2010 and never getting back there again.
Rodgers made the 224th regular-season start of his illustrious career on Monday. He entered the game ranked ninth all-time with 59,055 passing yards and fifth with 475 touchdown passes. Those stats may forever stay there now with this latest injury.
Needless to say, NFL fans have grown quite tired of hearing Colin Kaepernick’s name come up every time there’s a quarterback job that opens up. This instance was no different:
