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It has been a long road back for New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. When he takes the field for Week 1 Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers, Rodgers will have gone 364 days in between football games, as he missed all but four plays of the 2023 season with an Achilles tendon rupture -- disrupting the Jets' plans to contend for the Super Bowl last season.
But after a year of rehabilition and regurgitation of conspiracy theories, Rodgers is back -- and hoping to lead Gang Green to glory in 2024. Rodgers has recently lifted the lid on his offseason of choices, and he revealed what he would have done had he decided to quit the NFL following his devastating injury.
Rodgers confirms he could have been a VP candidate
Back in March, US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he was considering Rodgers as his potential running mate ahead of November's presidential election. Rodgers and the independent candidate RFK Jr. have been aligned on a number of right-wing viewpoints -- specifically, the effectiveness of vaccinations -- and the former NFL MVP was gaining momentum in the VP race, in what would have been an historic appointment.
However, Kennedy has since moved on, and Rodgers has too. The Jets signal-caller on Tuesday revealed that while it was true that Kennedy's camp had reached out to him, he really wanted to keep playing football.
"I love Bobby," Rodgers said. "We had a couple really nice conversations. But there were really two options. It was retire and be his VP, or keep playing."
While many believed that Rodgers' media presence was a distraction in another disappointing Jets season last year, Rodgers himself has disagreed with that assessment -- and his mind is firmly on the field, where he is hoping to guide New York to the playoffs for the first time since 2010.
Rodgers' health will be vital to the Jets' playoff push, and the 40-year-old -- the oldest active player on an NFL roster right now -- is facing doubts that he hasn't really faced before in his lengthy career. How he rises to meet those challenges is among the top storylines entering the new season.