Aaron Rodgers opted to throw as a substitute of run.
The Jets quarterback mentioned the selection between returning to Gang Inexperienced or changing into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential working mate — because the impartial candidate posited in March — was a simple one.
“I like Bobby,” he mentioned Tuesday. “We had a few very nice conversations. However there have been actually two choices. It was retire and be his VP or maintain taking part in and I need to maintain taking part in.”
In April, Rodgers appeared to endorse RFK, a fellow vaccine skeptic, in an Instagram submit selling the QB’s look on a podcast, writing “Kennedy 2024” underneath a video clip.
Rodgers, at OTAs with the Jets this week, seemingly went mountaineering with Kennedy in February, as he was rehabbing his torn Achilles.
The 40-year-old suffered the damage 4 performs into the Jets’ 2023 season opener, immediately damaging what the franchise had hoped was going to be a aggressive season.
For the Jets, there was seemingly little concern Rodgers would truly enterprise into politics as a substitute of coming again to Florham Park.
“I feel it was considered a little bit bit otherwise within the political world than it was, no less than in our world,” coach Robert Saleh mentioned on the NFL’s league conferences in Orlando in March.
“I hope he looks like he has some candidates for Director of Homeland Safety, Secretary of Protection, now that we’ve fortified the O-line,” GM Joe Douglas joked. “When all that was getting on the market, I used to be centered on nothing however bettering the crew. I didn’t take it very severely.”
For now, Rodgers is concentrated on taking his first aggressive snaps in nearly a 12 months.
He took half in Tuesday’s observe, the Jets’ second of the OTA session, with no restrictions, and impressed along with his trademark tight passing and even did some working — the athletic sort.
“I’ve a variety of motivation,” Rodgers mentioned Tuesday after the Jets’ second OTA observe. “I like the sport. I need to play at a excessive degree. I don’t need to exit, as I’ve mentioned earlier than, as a bum. I would like to have the ability to play. That’s why I put the work in. I consider in my talents. You guys noticed it right now.
“There’s no pads on however I can clearly nonetheless throw with the most effective of them.”
