After a wild NFL offseason in which superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers chose to play for the New York Jets, forcing the Green Bay Packers to trade their face of the franchise, the worst-case scenario came to fruition on Monday Night Football in Week 1.
Rodgers went down with a season-ending Achilles injury during his first series in a Jets uniform against the division-rival Buffalo Bills, resulting in all the hype coming to an end in the Big Apple and the future Hall of Famer having to make a decision about his future in the NFL.
Ultimately, Rodgers decided to immediately have surgery to repair his torn Achilles tendon, which made him think about the late, great Kobe Bryant, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers, who suffered the same injury in 2013.
Bryant documented his recovery from the Achilles injury in the documentary “Muse,” and Rodgers remembered watching it, and then he reached out to surgeon Neal ElAttrache, who performed the surgery on the Lakers legend, as he told Pat McAfee on “The Pat McAfee Show” via ClutchPoints.
“I knew that Kobe [Bryant] had done his Achilles, so I looked into right away. I mean literally on the table Monday night, I thought about Kob. I had seen ‘Muse’, but I had forgotten that he gotten surgery the next day.”
Aaron Rodgers on having the same surgeon (Neal ElAttrache)… pic.twitter.com/cICXiHlYJf
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) September 15, 2023
Although Bryant was never the same player after undergoing surgery to repair his torn Achilles, the medical field has changed quite a bit over the last 10 years, with players like Phoenix Suns superstar Kevin Durant bouncing back from the injury to return to form.
Even though the odds are against Rodgers returning to his MVP-caliber form in the NFL after this injury, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that he can pull it off, and it seems as though he’s accepted the challenge to try and do so.
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