Aaron Rodgers made an emphatic return to golf over the weekend — and among the Jets’ offensive linemen have been there to witness it.
The Jets quarterback reportedly coordinated a visit to Vegas with all of his offensive lineman, and at one level, throughout his first spherical of golf since tearing his Achilles, Rodgers sank a hole-in-one on the seventeenth gap — a par-3 one with a distance between 140-154 yards — at Shadow Creek Golf Course, in response to an Instagram put up.
He included a video of the group’s response after the profitable shot, which included Rodgers standing with each palms on his head in disbelief, in addition to one other clip the place Rodgers picked the ball out of the cup and flashed his index finger towards the digital camera.
Max Mitchell, Chris Glaser and Connor McGovern have been the others Jets that Rodgers golfed with.
And based mostly on testimonial quotes attributed to Rodgers on the Shadow Creek web site, it doesn’t seem to have been his first time taking part in that course, both.
“One of many prettiest, but most tough pictures in golf,” Rodgers stated in a quote subsequent to the seventeenth gap’s description.
And subsequent to the seventh gap, a Rodgers quote describes Shadow Creek as a spot that “doesn’t really feel like Las Vegas. It’s the hardest and prettiest I’ve ever performed.”
Wes Schweitzer additionally posted a gaggle picture of the Jets teammates on Instagram as they watched a Golden Knights recreation and Rodgers held a personalized No. 8 jersey.
Rodgers solely performed 4 snaps behind the linemen this season, because the 40-year-old was tackled on the Jets’ first drive and exited with what ended up being a torn Achilles.
Nonetheless, a restoration that adopted a faster timeline than normal didn’t precisely finish Rodgers’ season till the Jets have been eradicated from the postseason after dropping to the Dolphins on Dec. 17, and even after that occurred, he continued training.
The Jets shuffled linemen into totally different spots all through all the season, with solely left guard Laken Tomlinson beginning all 17 video games.
However even when the Jets’ offensive line appears to be like totally different in 2024, and even when they resolve to draft one choice — or two choices — that would anchor combos of the longer term, Rodgers managed to get Gang Inexperienced’s present positional group collectively one other time.
He discovered a approach to supply a spotlight clip, too.
