Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has tested positive for COVID. Rodgers must be away from the team no more than 10 days per NFL rule. Therefore, he will miss this coming Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Following a long dispute over the treatment of the Packers’ Super Bowl winner and 2020 NFL Most Valuable Player in the past, Rodgers reported to training camp. He answered that he was immunized. Rodgers was a recipient of homeopathic medicine from his doctor, which he claimed met the required antibody levels to allow him to become immunized. Rodgers was not vaccinated by the NFL Players Association or the league.
After Rodgers’ openly stated dissatisfaction last off-season, Packers management has seized on the opportunity to criticize Rodgers for being positive for COVID. Matt LaFleur was the coach.
After telling reporters the Packers are “all hands on deck” with Rodgers out, coach Matt LaFleur was asked if the QB’s August comment may have been misleading, to which he replied, “It’s a great question for Aaron, I’m not going to comment on it,” per the Green Bay Press-Gazette
When asked if he’d consider Rodgers to be selfish for electing not to get the vaccine, LaFleur replied: “I think everybody has to make their own personal decision, and that’s just is what it is.”
Rodgers (37) has led the Packers, which have a record of 7-1, to tie with Arizona Cardinals in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Rams. Dallas Cowboys is 6-1. Rodgers has only three interceptions and 17 sacks despite less-than stellar line play.
Rodgers has no restrictions or trade clauses in his contract, so he is undoubtedly well compensated. Given how Packers management seems fiercely determined to prove they, not Rodgers and his open dismissal of PC foolishness, are the reason behind the team’s perennial contender status, it will be interesting to see if the Packers use this as all or part of an excuse to ship Rodgers elsewhere at season end should the team fail to win or reach the Super Bowl. Which, given how in the NFL both the Rams and Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers stand in Green Bay’s way, is a tall order indeed.
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