{"id":13775,"date":"2015-01-08T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:22:11","slug":"aaron-rodgers-dealing-with-slight-tear-in-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2015\/01\/08\/aaron-rodgers-dealing-with-slight-tear-in-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers dealing with slight tear in calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/aaronrodgers1.jpg\" alt=\"aaronrodgers\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/aaronrodgers1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/aaronrodgers1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nGreen Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday&#8217;s NFC Divisional Round playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys. While Rodgers will start he will not be at 100 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter, Rodgers is dealing with a &#8220;slight tear&#8221; in his calf in addition to a &#8220;significant&#8221; strain.<\/p>\n<p>What all that means is up for debate. The biggest question is how much will Rodgers be able to contribute. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Packers QB Aaron Rodgers\u2019 calf muscle has a slight tear in it in addition to be significantly strained, per&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EHDVeLczQv\">http:\/\/t.co\/EHDVeLczQv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/553259888395452418\">January 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question is whether he\u2019ll be 95 percent or 50 percent,&#8221; were the words of a &#8220;doctor familiar with the injury.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Rodgers should participate in team drills on Thursday but the team will limit his practice reps ahead of Sunday&#8217;s game. With the go or go home nature of the game the Packers are not about to sit Rodgers out.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Flynn is the Packers backup. He led them to a come from behind win against the Cowboys a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday&#8217;s NFC Divisional Round playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys. While Rodgers will start he will not be at 100 percent. According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter, Rodgers is dealing with a &#8220;slight tear&#8221; in his calf in addition to a &#8220;significant&#8221; strain. What all that means is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[24,426,153,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13776,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions\/13776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}