Sporting News<\/a>: “I know I’m ready to start.<\/p>\n“Because of all the work I’ve put in and just the confidence in my skills and abilities and just being able to do my job.<\/p>\n
“And to simplify things to the best of my ability every single day.<\/p>\n
“And just to take it one day at a time, one play at a time.<\/p>\n
Chicago Bears star wants Aaron Rodgers return to NFC North amid Minnesota Vikings links <\/p>\n
NFL important dates 2025 season<\/p>\n
March 12 – Free Agency begins<\/p>\n
April 24-26 – NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin<\/p>\n
September 4 – 2025 season opener (TBC vs Eagles)<\/p>\n
November 27 – Thanksgiving Day triple header<\/p>\n
January 4, 2026 – End of regular-season<\/p>\n
February 8, 2026 – Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California<\/p>\n
“And I have a tremendous coaching staff, a tremendous group of guys around me that I can lean on and they can lean on me.”<\/p>\n
The No.10 overall pick in 2024 also revealed that he lost a shocking 25-30 pounds during his recovery from the injury.<\/p>\n
He has since put the weight back on and is back to 215 pounds.<\/p>\n
He added: “It was just the combination of not moving at all, not working out.<\/p>\n
“I’m somebody that needs to work out in order to put on weight.<\/p>\n
“It’s amazing how fast it kind of peaks and valleys, but I’m feeling like I’m in a really comfortable spot and just kind of maintain it from here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS have made their final decision on Aaron Rodgers. The franchise has been in the market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2073],"tags":[1586,7,233,259,2529,6,578,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-15120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-minnesotavikings","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-section-sportamerican-football","15":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114432446549839487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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