The Green Bay Packers are starting Aaron Rodgers in Week 17 against the Chicago Bears after he missed seven games with a collarbone injury and he will be in for Matt Flynn and that comes as the team plays on Sunday at Soldier Field to play a winner take all game for the NFC North division.
The Packers visit the Bears after Chicago won in Green Bay with Josh McCown and now both teams will have their starting quarterbacks back, with Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers under center for the game. Rodgers was out for two months with a collarbone injury and now he will be starting against the Bears after Matt Flynn started last week and the team lost at home to the Steelers. Rodgers comes in after a long back and forth about his injury and the team went 2-4-1 over the stretch without Todgers and now the team goes up against the Bears with an 8-7-1 record and the Bears are 8-7 on the season and this game is for the NFC North division title and a playoff berth.
The Packers finally made a decision on Rodgers and they feel that he is ready to go and he will be starting in Week 17 over Matt Flynn for the Packers and that makes the matchup against the Chicago Bears for the NFC North division even more exciting, as both Rodgers and Jay Cutler will be starting after missing big chunks of the season. Here is a report from Reuters.com on Rodgers. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he will know by Thursday whether he will be cleared medically to play in Sunday's pivotal regular-season finale against the Chicago Bears.
The 30-year-old, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, has missed the last seven games after breaking his left collarbone against the Bears in early November.
Rodgers on Tuesday apologized to his team's fans for keeping them in suspense in recent weeks over whether he had sufficiently recovered to make a competitive comeback.
"We are going through the process of evaluation," Rodgers said on Milwaukee's WAUK-AM 540. "But I can say definitively there will be (on) Thursday, one way or another, there will be a definitive conclusion to this week's unknown."
"I'm feeling better and not thinking about my injury at all. Ultimately it comes down to ... is the bone healed or is there a large risk in going back out there that's too great, that the organization would not want to put me out there?
"Obviously, I want to be out there. I know what's at stake. This is an important week for us. We're somehow back in this position to be able to get into the playoffs. What a better way to do that than against the Chicago Bears?"
The return of Rodgers, the Super Bowl's most valuable player in 2011, would give the Packers (7-7-1) a massive boost as they bid to clinch their third consecutive NFC North title.
Sunday's game in Chicago is a winner-take-all affair that will not only decide the division but also hand the victorious team a berth in the playoffs. (Reuters)