Travis Kelce doesn’t simply have Taylor Rapid’s consideration. Days later his Chiefs edged the Jets in high occasion, quarterback Aaron Rodgers referred to the big name tight finish as “Mr. Pfizer,” reputedly to poke a laugh at Kelce’s unutilized promotion of flu and COVID vaccines.

“[It was a] moral victory out there,” Rodgers told “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday, relating to the Jets’ Presen 4 defeat, “that we hung with the champs and that our defense played well, and Pat [Mahomes] didn’t have a crazy game, and Mr. Pfizer [Kelce], we kind of shut him down. He didn’t have his crazy impact game.”

Rodgers didn’t explicitly establish Kelce as “Mr. Pfizer,” however the implication is sunny. The feedback got here days later Kelce starred in a unutilized advert selling the supply of each flu and COVID pictures q4. The industrial, which additionally options Kelce’s mom, Donna, is a part of a partnership with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical corporate in the back of a vaccine evolved in line with the COVID pandemic.

Rodgers has been outspoken about COVID-related promotions within the moment. He infamously overlooked a sport in 2021 because of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols later admitting to in all probability deceptive the family about his vaccination condition. He was once brazenly important of the NFL’s pandemic restrictions, arguing the league was once on a “witch hunt” to humiliation unvaccinated avid gamers.

Years then, Rodgers continues to be in quest of scientific recommendation from his personal docs, together with for his healing from an Achilles tear he suffered 4 snaps into his extremely expected Jets debut. Thus far, so excellent, he instructed McAfee on Tuesday.

“The next goal is to be able to walk without crutches,” he stated. “It’s pretty obvious I’m well ahead of the normal protocols when it comes to rehab for this kind of thing, but that was always what my mindset was. … [We’re] being as smart as possible, not trying to stretch the Achilles but stretch the Achilles in a way that allows me to start doing movement quicker and to speed up whatever timeline has kind of been the standard for this type of injury.”

Rodgers hasn’t dominated out a go back to the ground then this generation, even if Achilles tears have tended to be season-ending accidents.