Aaron Rodgers: No big pressure from us to sign Clay Matthews

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers was one of three Packers players to post photos of former teammate Clay Matthews on social media last weekend and he adorned his with “BRING HIM BACK” in a post. apparent to the team.

Wide receiver Randall Cobb and left tackle David Bakhtiari were the others to join in the fun. Rodgers explained what led to the posts on Wednesday and said there had been no major pressure from anyone to get the team to bring the pass runner back.

“Friday night I was with Dave and his lovely fiancee, Frankie, and the Cobbs. And we had a question about Clay, because Clay just moved from California. So we have Clay on FaceTime,” said Rodgers, via Zach Kruse of USAToday.com “Those conversations turned into a social media post. There wasn’t, I don’t think, a lot of pressure from any of us.” to sign him. We didn’t even talk ball. We were just BS-ing with him. Having a good conversation. He’s a big farmer now, kind of like Jordy. He probably has the strength to play, but I don’t think he has thought about football in a while.

Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said last Sunday that there had been no discussion of re-signing Matthews, who left the Packers after 2018 and has been out of the league since taking over. played the 2019 season for the Rams.