Aaron Rodgers reveals biggest regret from fateful play that ended first Jets season in new book
NY Post
Aaron Rodgers has thrown 7,661 career regular-season passes.
He wishes that total was — and now admits it should be — at least one number higher.
Rodgers reported to Florham Park on Tuesday for the start of Jets training camp and his 20th NFL season, looking to put behind him the shock of suffering a torn Achilles on just the fourth snap of his Second Act.
But first, Rodgers has answered a nagging question left over from the fateful Week 1 night against the Bills: Why didn’t he throw the ball to an open Garrett Wilson before Leonard Floyd sacked him and ended his 2023 season?
“I felt like pre-snap that the safety was going to come down, so I think I played it all a little bit too quick,” Rodgers told former Post columnist Ian O’Connor in his upcoming book on the quarterback’s life, “Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers.” “And I was thinking about getting it backside to the under [receiver]. So, I probably should have just thrown it right to Garrett.”
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