Last summer, the New York Jets made a big splash in acquiring former Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Four plays into his tenure with the team, Rodgers went down with a season-ending Achilles injury.
Jets fans are excited to see Rodgers return and hopefully stay healthy enough to get the team back to the playoffs for the first time since 2010.
Unfortunately, Rodgers has been a bit of a distraction this offseason.
First, there was the news that he was on the short list of vice presidential candidates for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Then, Rodgers decided to skip the Jets mandatory minicamp last week, creating an uproar with those in the media.
Recently, former Patriots receiver Julian Edelman appeared on the “Herd with Colin Cowherd” show and expressed his opinion on the matter.
.@Edelman11 says Aaron Rodgers missing mandatory minicamp is a bad look:
“If they go 1-3, this is going to be such a big distraction for that locker room.” pic.twitter.com/WLrwwgln2r
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) June 21, 2024
“God forbid…if they [Jets] go 1-3, this is going to be such a big distraction for that locker room.”
Edelman added that he believes the quarterback should have attended the camp given the Jets’ struggles without Rodgers last season, and the limited amount of practice time teams are permitted.
“I guarantee there’s four or five guys, six, seven, eight, nine guys in that locker room sitting there like, ‘where’s he at?’” said Edelman. “Now, if they start 4-0, no one’s going to care. But this is the NFL. I think it’s a bad look for your leader, for whatever reason, to go and miss [with] an unexcused absence.”
Edelman elaborated that in all his years playing with quarterback Tom Brady, Brady missed a few OTAs “here and there” but never missed a mandatory minicamp.
He concluded that Rodgers missing camp was a “bad look.”
As Edelman alluded to, time will tell whether or not Rodgers’s latest distraction is much ado about nothing.
