Aaron Rodgers is formally placing his torn Achilles tendon behind him.
The New York Jets quarterback has no limitations as he practices with the staff throughout organized staff actions, which started Monday.
“He is doing every little thing,” coach Robert Saleh mentioned Tuesday.
The 40-year-old Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon on the fourth snap of his debut with the Jets within the season opener towards Buffalo final Sept. 11. He pushed his rehabilitation with the intention to return on the finish of final season, however determined to forgo these plans when New York fell out of playoff rivalry and he was nonetheless not 100% wholesome.
Rodgers centered as a substitute on being absolutely prepared for this season — and he seems nicely on monitor to take action.
“He has no restrictions and he appears to be like good,” Saleh mentioned. “The arm expertise is clearly nonetheless there. It is actually simply re-acclimating to every little thing. We’re attempting a bunch of recent stuff, too. It is simply attempting to evolve throughout the offense.”
Saleh mentioned earlier this month throughout offseason exercises that the Jets anticipated Rodgers to be with out restrictions as soon as OTAs started.
On Tuesday, Saleh mentioned whether or not Rodgers is 100% wholesome is a greater query for the quarterback to reply, however added: “So far as we’re involved, his monitor and what he is capable of do, there isn’t any limitations to what we’re asking him to do at apply.”
Rodgers’ return has refueled the optimism across the Jets, who have been thought of a playoff contender a 12 months in the past — with discuss of a Tremendous Bowl look urged by the quarterback and his teammates.
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New York, which has the NFL’s longest lively playoff drought at 13 seasons, is once more being talked about among the many groups thought of a contender. The league’s schedule makers suppose extremely of the staff, too, slotting the Jets for six night time prime-time video games within the first 11 weeks.
Mike North, the NFL’s vice chairman for broadcast planning, mentioned final week “I really feel just like the Jets type of owe us one” after the staff had 5 prime-time video games scheduled and Rodgers was damage in Week 1.
“It is New York, there’s at all times going to be pleasure,” Saleh mentioned. “It is superior that we’re checked out in that gentle. However on the identical time, none of it issues until we deal with the method, going each day and attempt to do the perfect we are able to.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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