Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday towards the Rams regardless of not training on Friday, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur confirmed, per the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
The quarterback, who missed all three practices this week, was seen relaying calls to Jordan Love throughout Friday’s observe.
Rodgers’s taking part in standing was up in the air as controversy took his world by storm, this time about what his toe harm really was. He went on The Pat McAfee Present once more on Wednesday however didn’t share a lot about his toe harm. He mentioned that it was a “COVID harm” and that it was “a little bit painful.”
“I felt good in just some days with none lingering results aside from the COVID toe,” Rodgers mentioned. At one other level in the interview, he mentioned that the toe harm is actually a “bone issue.”
Media shops, corresponding to The Wall Avenue Journal, published a story earlier on Wednesday stating that Rodgers had COVID toe, taking the quarterback’s phrase on the problem regardless of the joking nature of that a part of the interview with McAfee.
Later that very same day, the quarterback confirmed his “fractured toe” to reporters as he silenced rumors that he had COVID toe. In the course of of claiming he expects an apology from the WSJ due to the “disinformation,” Rodgers misidentified the creator in his spiel.
“That’s really known as disinformation once you perpetuate false details about a person,” Rodgers mentioned, per Packers Central. “I’ve a fractured toe. So, I count on a full apology from Molly Knight and whoever her editor was. I did get a kick out of studying that article. That was very, very fascinating, however I had by no means heard of COVID toe earlier than. Pat made a joke about it on the present, and I discussed yesterday that it’s worse than turf toe and it have to be a bone problem. I can’t consider I’ve to once more come on right here and speak about my medical data It’s shocking coming from what was once a good journalistic establishment, however that’s the world we dwell in as of late.”
Reporter Molly Knight, previously of The Athletic, responded to Rodgers after he misidentified her as the creator of The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘COVID toe’ article.
“Since there appears to be some confusion: I didn’t write the Aaron Rodgers Covid toe article,” the journalist tweeted. “I don’t work for the Wall Avenue Journal. Please cease all this hate. Thanks.”
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