{"id":140933,"date":"2022-11-27T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/report-aaron-rodgers-has-avulsion-fracture-in-thumb\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:05:00","slug":"report-aaron-rodgers-has-avulsion-fracture-in-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/report-aaron-rodgers-has-avulsion-fracture-in-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Aaron Rodgers has avulsion fracture in thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s arguably no coincidence that, with Green Bay’s playoff chances circling the drain \u2014 and with quarterback Aaron Rodgers looking particularly inaccurate during crunch time of a Week 11 loss to the Titans \u2014 more information has been emerging about a thumb injury through which he has been playing .<\/p>\n
With the Packers at 4-7 and a stiff challenge coming tonight at Philadelphia, the foundation quite possibly is being put in place for Rodgers to slide to injured reserve, once the Packers’ playoff hopes are dashed, not mathematically but for practical purposes. That could come as soon as tonight, if the Packers lose and fall to 4-8.<\/p>\n
Rodgers himself first disclosed that the thumb is broken, in the days after he heard boos following a pair of bad throws in the fourth quarter of the loss to Tennessee. Now, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Rodgers has an \u201cavulsion fracture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rapoport writes that the injury is \u201cserious enough that surgery is almost always the answer to fix this type of injury.\u201d He also says that an avulsion fracture \u201ccauses the ligament to rip away from the attachment, taking some bone with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sounds painful. Given that description, it’s incredible Rodgers is playing through it.<\/p>\n