(East Rutherford) Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets have been training all summer to get to this moment.
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Dennis Waszak fils
Associated Press
This is also the case for Damar Hamlin.
When the Jets face the Buffalo Bills on Monday at MetLife Stadium, it will mark the next step in the careers of two players.
First, Rodgers will make his long-awaited regular-season debut with the Jets, who acquired the four-time NFL Most Valuable Player from the Green Bay Packers, in April.
“Something has happened almost every day and it just reminds me that I’m in the right place, where I’m supposed to be,” Rodgers said. I absolutely love what this opportunity has given me. »
Next, Hamlin is expected to play a regular-season game for the first time since suffering cardiac arrest and resuscitation on the field in Cincinnati on Jan. 2.
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Damar Hamlin is expected to play a regular season game for the first time since suffering a cardiac arrest and resuscitation on the field in Cincinnati on January 2.
“It’s just incredible,” head coach Sean McDermott said of Hamlin’s return to play.
Hamlin broke into the Bills lineup as a backup, when many thought he would never play again.
Rodgers went from being “90% certain to retire” in February, to wanting to play more and saying he wanted it to be with the Jets. After a few months of speculation and negotiations, the Jets completed the transaction to get their hands on the 39-year-old quarterback.
Since then, expectations for the team with the longest active streak without making the playoffs have changed greatly. Even some see the Jets as contenders for top honors.
“It’s obviously better than the other way around,” said the team’s head coach, Robert Saleh. You work hard to put yourself in a position where you have a real chance of achieving something. That being said, we haven’t accomplished anything yet, we need to do it. »
Monday’s game will also be running back Dalvin Cook’s first in a Jets uniform.
Cook spent the first six seasons of his career with the Minnesota Vikings, rushing for at least 1,100 yards in each of the last four.
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