When Will Arron Rodgers Be Able to Play Again

Green BAY - The Light-green Bay Packers activated quarterback Aaron Rodgers off the reserve/COVID-xix list Saturday, setting the stage for him to return to action 11 days after testing positive for the virus.

Rodgers had met protocols for returning to play set past the NFL and NFLPA, according to multiple reports confirmed past PackersNews. The NFL Network reported Sabbatum morning that Rodgers was back inside Lambeau Field and set to be activated and will play Sun against Seattle.

The Packers had until iii p.thousand. to render Rodgers to the 53-man roster so that he would exist eligible to play against the Seahawks.

Rodgers as well was added to the injury report with a toe injury, but there was no designation with information technology, meaning he is OK to play.

For Rodgers to return from a mandatory 10-day quarantine, league rules state that he must have passed a cardiac test, not had a fever for 24 hours and seen comeback in his symptoms.

In add-on, he must receive clearance from team physician Patrick McKenzie in consultation with Infection Command Education for Major Sports (ICS), an independent agency that provides the NFL with information and risk strategy for dealing with COVID-19.

Rodgers, who is not vaccinated, did not demand to pass a COVID-xix test and will not need to be tested again for xc days.

Coach Matt LaFleur made it articulate that Rodgers would get-go confronting the Seahawks if he were cleared to play fifty-fifty though the only do he would accept taken part in is a walk-through inside the Packers' facility Saturday.

It's always possible that LaFleur and the medical staff want to reserve their determination on his status until he goes through warm-ups prior to the game, just all week he seemed confident that if Rodgers was cleared on Saturday he would play.

Rodgers said on the "Pat McAfee Prove" on Tuesday that he felt he was on "the other side" of his infection, but that he had mostly been limited to walking and yoga upward to that point. The NFL'south protocol for returning to the field has a built-in iii-24-hour interval "ramp up" schedule in which the player increases his cardio workouts.

Wide receiver Davante Adams went through a similar process when he came dorsum from a positive test. He was able to make it one mean solar day of practise and the Saturday walk-through before playing 58 snaps confronting Kansas City.

He admitted that he was winded late in the game, although he thought information technology was more from laying around the house during his quarantine than COVID-nineteen itself.

Rodgers may face the same kind of conditioning hurdles, especially given he hasn't played a game since Oct. 28, when the Packers trounce the Arizona Cardinals. The game was on a Thursday night and Rodgers tested positive on the following Wednesday, ruling him out for the game in Kansas Metropolis.

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LaFleur and the coaching staff had Rodgers go through all of the meetings he normally would through video conferencing, fifty-fifty having him lookout man practice tape where backup Jordan Love took all the snaps. None of the coaches expressed any concern about him handling the game program given his feel and cognition of the game.

"You're trying to make it so everybody's comfortable and prepare to go and execute," offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said. "So, we don't necessarily have that considering we haven't been able to have him become out there and phone call those plays and sentinel him execute.

"But at the same time, when you lot have a Th game, you lot don't really do, you walk through. Then, nosotros have done some good things on those Thursday night games, so like everybody has said, if anybody tin can do it, it'southward definitely Aaron. And you feel more than comfortable with it being a guy similar Aaron, but at that place'due south just the unknown of not going out there and executing the plays that we're going to take against them.

'And then, information technology'due south interesting."

If Rodgers can't stop the game for some reason, Jordan Love has had the entire calendar week to prepare. He is coming off his offset career starting time against Kansas Urban center, and while his performance was shaky, he did a few practiced things tardily in the game that encouraged the coaches.

Love finished 19 of 34 for 190 yards and a touchdown with an interception.

The three-5 Seahawks volition be looking to win at Lambeau Field for the kickoff time since 1999, having suffered nine direct losses, including three in the playoffs. They have had to prepare both for Rodgers and Love to be the quarterback and likely take two different game plans.

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In his last game, Rodgers completed 22 of 37 passes for 184 yards and ii touchdowns and for the season he has completed 173 of 258 passes for i,894 yards and 17 touchdowns with three interceptions (105.7 pass rating).

His return to the football field comes after 10 days of scrutiny in which Rodgers was lambasted for deceiving the public about his vaccination status and then going on the McAfee Testify and citing imitation claims about the vaccine and blasting the NFL for shaming players who accept refused to accept it.

In add-on, the Packers were fined $300,000 for protocol violations inside and outside the facility, including a Halloween party that many Packers players, including Rodgers, attended and didn't wear masks. Rodgers and receiver Allen Lazard were fined $xiv,650 apiece for violations related to the Halloween party.

Ryan Wood of the Light-green Bay Press-Gazette contributed to this report.

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