Travis Kelce doesn’t simply have Taylor Speedy’s consideration. Days then his Chiefs edged the Jets in high future, quarterback Aaron Rodgers referred to the celebrity 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, regarding the Jets’ Generation 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 unclouded. The feedback got here days then Kelce starred in a unutilized advert selling the provision of each flu and COVID pictures this autumn. 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 year. He infamously ignored a sport in 2021 because of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols then admitting to perhaps deceptive the community about his vaccination situation. He was once brazenly crucial of the NFL’s pandemic restrictions, arguing the league was once on a “witch hunt” to humiliation unvaccinated avid gamers.

Years after, Rodgers remains to be searching for scientific recommendation from his personal medical doctors, together with for his cure from an Achilles tear he suffered 4 snaps into his extremely expected Jets debut. Up to now, so excellent, he informed 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 farmland after this era, despite the fact that Achilles tears have tended to be season-ending accidents.