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

“[It was a] moral victory out there,” Rodgers told “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday, relating to the Jets’ Moment 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 determine Kelce as “Mr. Pfizer,” however the implication is cloudless. The feedback got here days later Kelce starred in a brandnew advert selling the supply of each flu and COVID photographs q4. The economic, which additionally options Kelce’s mom, Donna, is a part of a partnership with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical corporate in the back of a vaccine advanced in keeping with the COVID pandemic.

“I thought it was pretty good,” Kelce informed journalists Friday about Rodgers’ statement. “With this mustache right now I look like a guy named Mr. Pfizer. Who knew I’d get into the vax wars with Aaron Rodgers, man? Mr. Pfizer vs. the Johnson and Johnson family over there.”

When requested why he gave the impression within the business, Kelce added: “I got it because of keeping myself safe, keeping my family safe, the people in this building, so yeah I stand by it 1000%. Fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.” 

Rodgers has been outspoken about COVID-related promotions within the day. He infamously neglected a recreation in 2021 because of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols later admitting to perhaps deceptive the folk about his vaccination situation. He used to be brazenly important of the NFL’s pandemic restrictions, arguing the league used to be on a “witch hunt” to humiliation unvaccinated gamers.

Years next, Rodgers remains to be looking for scientific recommendation from his personal docs, together with for his cure from an Achilles tear he suffered 4 snaps into his extremely expected Jets debut. Thus far, so just right, 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 ground next this era, despite the fact that Achilles tears have tended to be season-ending accidents.