Aaron Rodgers Makes Surprising Admission About Jets Training Camp

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers called the team's training camp the hardest "in the last seven or eight [years] of my career" while addressing reporters on Tuesday (August 20).

Rodgers, 40, who is coming off a season-ending Achilles injury, acknowledged that Jets starters have been getting "somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 more reps" compared to last year's training camp session.

“And it feels like it,” Rodgers said via the New York Post . “But it’s good. I think it’s gonna allow us to maybe be a little more ready. We’ve been fortunate with injuries. We haven’t had a ton of injuries so far, so I like it. It’s been great. You talk to the older guys, not a lot of complaints from any of those guys. Young guys don’t know any better.”

Rodgers participated in training camp after missing the team's mandatory minicamp in June for what head coach Robert Saleh described as an unexcused absence due to an event "that was very important to him."

Rodgers was acquired by the Jets after last offseason after 18 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, but limited to just four snaps before suffering a season-ending Achilles injury in his Jets debut last September.

"I feel really good," Rodgers said of his injury status in May via NFL.com . "It's just about the mental part. These practices have been nice the last couple of days. Feel what it's like to be out there, to be moving around, to not be thinking about it and see how I respond the next day. This is the last part.

"The strength is good, the movement is good, just the confidence to do everything."