{"id":287545,"date":"2023-09-13T23:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=287545"},"modified":"2023-09-13T23:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:19:54","slug":"aaron-rodgers-heartbroken-after-season-ending-achilles-injury-vows-return-i-shall-rise-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/nfl\/aaron-rodgers-heartbroken-after-season-ending-achilles-injury-vows-return-i-shall-rise-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers &#x27;heartbroken&#x27; after season-ending Achilles injury, vows return: &#x27;I shall rise yet again&#x27;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The football world has had nearly 48 hours to process what happened to Aaron Rodgers on Monday night in East Rutherford, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough time for Rodgers to craft a response of his own after suffering a season-ending Achilles tear on the fourth snap of his Jets career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to every person that has reached out, called, texted, DM&#8217;d, connected through a friend, etc.,&#8221; Rodgers wrote on Instagram. &#8220;It has meant a ton to me, and I&#8217;ll try and get back to all of you soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m completely heartbroken and moving through all of the emotions, but deeply touched and humbled by the support and love. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I begin the healing process today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The night is darkest before the dawn. And I shall rise yet again. Proud of my guys, 1-0.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxJcE9NSJq0\/<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Aaron Rodgers (@aaronrodgers12)<\/p>\n<h2>          <span>            Related Links          <\/span>        <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>              Jets HC Robert Saleh on Aaron Rodgers&#x27; future: &#x27;I&#x27;d be shocked if this is the way he&#x27;s gonna go out&#x27;            <\/li>\n<li>              NFL Power Rankings, Week 2: 49ers hit No. 1; can Jets overcome Aaron Rodgers&#x27; devastating injury?            <\/li>\n<li>              NFL Week 1&#x27;s biggest deals: Aaron Rodgers&#x27; injury buries Jets; Cowboys, Jordan Love make statements            <\/li>\n<li>              Jets QB Aaron Rodgers suffered torn Achilles vs. Bills, will miss remainder of 2023 NFL season            <\/li>\n<li>              Jets HC Robert Saleh on loss of Aaron Rodgers: &#x27;I don&#x27;t know why people are trying to put an obituary on our team name&#x27;            <\/li>\n<li>              Aaron Rodgers&#x27; arrival proves too good to be true for Jets after season-opening injury            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a somber two days for Gang Green, even after the Jets managed to claw back and walk away with an overtime victory over the division-rival Buffalo Bills. The loss of Rodgers meant a dampening of the Jets&#8217; sky-high hopes, even if there is nearly an entire season left to play.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers&#8217; injury instantly became national news, reaching far beyond the confines of MetLife Stadium in a ripple effect that touched a number of his closest former teammates. David Bakhtiari, Rodgers&#8217; former blindside protector in Green Bay, instantly worried his old pal may have suffered the worst possible injury when watching on television, admitting this week &#8220;I was just like, &#8216;Yeah, I hope it&#8217;s not that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just gutted for him,&#8221; Bakhtiari said, via PackersNews.com. &#8220;I know all that he was dealing with and how excited he was, and I know how much the game means to him. For it to go that quick, and especially with that type of injury, having to bounce back from that, it&#8217;s going to be tough. But he&#8217;s a tough dude.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tough times don&#8217;t last. Tough people do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ripples didn&#8217;t stop at Wisconsin. They managed to reach another former teammate who was cruising through the air at 35,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really tough, man. I really didn&#8217;t want to take to social media, because I spoke to him directly, and reached out immediately,&#8221; Raiders receiver Davante Adams said. &#8220;I was watching on the plane as we were on our way over here. And it&#8217;s like a horrible movie, you don&#8217;t want to see the main character go down like that, all all, let alone as early as what it was. And I know he was excited, and I was definitely excited to see him ball out. I know he was feeling rejuvenated and excited about the opportunity to work with a really good team, so it sucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my guy, though, so I let him know basically that I&#8217;m here for him in whatever way I can. I don&#8217;t know what I can do to make him feel better at this point, especially obviously with us being in the season now as well, but yeah, like I said it sucks, and just praying that his mental is in a good spot right now and he continues to overcome it, and obviously that team as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even Rodgers&#8217; former coach in Green Bay &#8212; whom the quarterback actively decided to part with earlier this year &#8212; understood the gravity of the moment one day after the Packers began their season with a win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah it&#8217;s tough, I feel for him, and never want to see anybody go through that,&#8221; Matt LaFleur said. &#8220;I think any time you have a player of his caliber not playing the game of football, it&#8217;s bad for our game. So thoughts are certainly with him, and I know I&#8217;ve got so much respect for him, I&#8217;ve said it a million times how tough he is, the competitor he is, and I knew when he went down, back down on the ground it had to have been something serious, because I&#8217;ve seen him play through so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like Bakhtiari, LaFleur held on to some optimism regarding Rodgers&#8217; outlook. If anyone can bounce back from such a significant injury, it&#8217;s Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would think that somebody of his caliber, that he would have no problem coming back from it,&#8221; LaFleur said of Rodgers, who turns 40 in December. &#8220;I really believe it, I know the type of worker he is, and so it&#8217;s just going to be a choice of whether or not he wants to continue to play or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as if Rodgers intends to return. After all, his New York narrative was only just beginning when it met a brutally abrupt pause Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/aaron-rodgers-heartbroken-after-season-ending-achilles-injury-vows-return-i-shal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The football world has had nearly 48 hours to process what happened to Aaron Rodgers on Monday night in East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aaron Rodgers &#x27;heartbroken&#x27; after season-ending Achilles injury, vows return: &#x27;I shall rise yet again&#x27; - Sports Love Me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/nfl\/aaron-rodgers-heartbroken-after-season-ending-achilles-injury-vows-return-i-shall-rise-yet-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aaron Rodgers &#x27;heartbroken&#x27; 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