One famous drug he has not tried is the Covid-19 vaccine. In 2021, Rodgers told NFL officials he was “immune” against the virus. When he tested positive for the virus that November, the truth emerged: He had not received any shots, explaining that he was allergic to an ingredient in Moderna and Pfizer’s formula, and that he was uncomfortable with what he considered. possible risks related to the Johnson & Johnson shooting. He was benched for 10 days and fined $14,650 by the league. The NFL also fined the Green Bay Packers, Rodgers’ team at the time, $300,000 following an investigation into the program’s COVID-19 protocols.
Rodgers said Ian O’Connorwho in August 2024 published an unauthorized biography Out of the Shadows: The Enigma of Aaron Rodgers, that he regretted his words. “If there’s one thing I wish was different it’s that, because that’s the one thing [critics] could hit me,” Rodgers is quoted as saying in O’Connor’s book.
“He told me, I should have told the truth,” O’Connor said in an interview with Vanity fair around the time the book was published. “This is the first time he said that.”
In the document, Rodgers claims that he submitted a roughly 500-page appeal to the league to avoid mandatory protocol for unvaccinated players, including wearing masks and daily testing, which Rodgers calls “wild.” He revealed that he also did not get the flu vaccine as a child because his father doubted it. Discussing the “I’m immune” comment he shared with the press, Rodgers blamed the media for not asking follow-up questions to clarify that he had not been vaccinated. He called subsequent coverage of the issue a “smear campaign.”
In the second episode of the Netflix series, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.a noted anti-vaxxer, has entered the picture. Rodgers and Kennedy appear in a clip labeled February 2024 going hiking together. “Have you thought about going into politics?” Kennedy asked Rodgers on camera. “I was hired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Rodgers later revealed. offered to be his vice president immediately after the climbing trip we went on.”
Even though Jets owner Woody Johnsonin an interview with ESPN, insisted that Rodgers is “100% back” to football, never say never: Kennedy is president-elect Donald Trumpchoice of operates the Department of Health and Human Serviceswith the directive to “go wild,” so perhaps Rodgers still has a chance to reconnect with his old friend.
