Aaron Rodgers‘quarterback’ of the New York Jets, stated this Tuesday that seeks to inspire people with the way he recovers from a ruptured Achilles tendon that he suffered, an injury that will not be the end of his NFL career.
“I am trying to inspire to see recovery in a different way, I want to inspire many people to see this injury not as a death sentence for my career.which at one time really was, but to know that with your willpower everything is possible,” stressed the 39-year-old player.
Rodgers tore his Achilles tendon in the first quarter of the Week 1 game in which the Jets beat the Buffalo Bills last September 11.
A couple of days after the game It was announced that the four-time NFL Most Valuable Player would miss the remainder of the 2023 season. after the surgery he underwent, a sentence that Rodgers said will be reversed.
“There is nothing normal about how I am approaching rehabilitation. They said I had to spend six weeks in an orthopedic boot and I walked in sneakers in 13 days. This is my way of thinking, I believe in the power of intention, of prayer, in your mental state and in the power of your willpower,” he said.
The champion in Super Bowl XLV demonstrated it last Sunday when He walked on the grass of MetLife Stadium, home of the Jets, in sneakers barely supported by a pair of crutches.
Aaron Rodgers
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Rodgers even took time to ask for the ball to throw a short delivery before his team’s loss to the Chiefs in Week 4 of the 2023 season in which he did not rule out reappearing.
“Going to the game on Sunday was always the goal, it was great talking to the guys. I’m way ahead in the normal protocols in rehabbing this injury trying to speed things up. Sometimes miracles are just doing things that people never do.” thought they were possible.”
The quarterback acknowledged that it will not be easy to return this year, but that it is not impossible. “There are a lot of odds against me, but just because something has never been done doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I believe in leaving room for the miraculous to happen. It’s just another injury that anyone can recover from and come back faster than that was expected or thought,” he concluded.
2023-10-04 05:13:46
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