A Jet-setting Aaron Rodgers, no pun meant, appears to be in all places, besides at Gang Inexperienced’s necessary minicamp earlier this month.
The 40-year-old quarterback attended Saturday night time’s UFC 303 card in Las Vegas, his first public look since taking part in hooky from minicamp.
Rodgers, who was sitting subsequent to former Packers teammate Marcedes Lewis, was a part of a packed crowd of 18,881.
Lewis now performs tight finish for the Bears.
This comes after Rodgers returned from a visit in Egypt as reported on FS1’s “The Herd” on Thursday in a dialog between Marquez Valdes-Scantling — Rodgers’ former teammate on the Packers — and host Jason McIntyre.
Valdes-Scantling instructed McIntyre that he labored out with Rodgers within the Los Angeles space Wednesday.
“Me and Aaron have been nice associates since I had been in Inexperienced Bay. I hit him up, instructed him I used to be popping out to LA, and stated, ‘Let’s run some routes,’ ” stated Valdes-Scantling, who this offseason signed a one-year take care of the Payments price as much as $4.5 million. “So we acquired it in. Went out to some highschool and ran some routes collectively.
“We’re good. It was good.”
That drew an excited response from McIntyre.
“All of the New York media can stand down,” he stated. “Aaron Rodgers is again from Egypt! It’s not a secret anymore!”
On the time, Robert Saleh termed Rodgers’ ditching of minicamp as an “unexcused absence,” and rumors had been that the quarterback was abroad someplace.
However a day later, Saleh tried to tamp down on the brewing controversy.
“Aaron and I are on the very same web page,” Saleh stated. “There’s no subject between Aaron [and me] or his teammates, for that matter. We addressed it [Tuesday]. It’s extra of a difficulty for everybody outdoors the constructing than it’s inside. That’s about it.”
As for Saturday’s occasion, this isn’t the primary time Rodgers attended a UFC card.
Rodgers attended UFC 302 at Prudential Middle in Newark on June 2, which was additionally attended by former President Donald Trump.
Early studies stated Rodgers — who was as soon as in consideration to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vp — dissed Trump in the course of the former president’s entrance into the world.
However Rodgers later posted photos on his Instagram displaying him shaking palms with Trump on the occasion.
As for UFC 303, Alex Pereira delivered a vicious left kick to Jiri Prochazka’s head after which pounded the top-ranked challenger 13 seconds into the second spherical to retain his gentle heavyweight championship.
Within the different UFC 303 co-main occasion, Diego Lopes defeated Dan Ige, a last-minute alternative for Brian Ortega who withdrew from the battle due to sickness.
