Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy does not care if Aaron Rodgers plays without training

McCarthy said Rodgers' painful left knee improved throughout the week.

"Aaron is better," McCarthy said Friday. "He was in a meeting this morning, I would say that he feels better than at the beginning of the week."

Unlike most teams, the Packers do not train on Fridays, but hold a light session on the field on Saturday before a Sunday game.

"Tomorrow's practice will be a pretty important indicator," McCarthy said in his last media session of the week. "Then we will see how it goes today, but nothing has changed, it is clearly in everyday life, and I hope it will be able to work tomorrow."

In the following breath, however, McCarthy said the Packers "do not really need to see anything [from Rodgers on Saturday] because the class work and the participation of both Aaron and DeShone [Kizer] is part of this preparation process. So we will continue to work on it and we will be ready to leave. "

"He could play without reps," added McCarthy. "We established this point some time ago in his career so I think it's no different.You would like to leave the field on Saturday and have your plan, but that's the National Football League. Things are happening on Saturday, it's also a part of our process where we work with the guys on the team and we're ready for anything, but I know he wants to play. "

On Thursday, McCarthy said it was "not at all" that Rodgers will play against the Vikings.

Kizer, 0-15 as a rookie last year for the Browns, doubled the ball in the three possessions he played after Rodgers' injury. He took all the representatives of the departure in practice Wednesday and Thursday.

Rodgers said that he was just calling his injury a sprain, but would not specify the degree or details of the injury. He described it as painful and painful in the days after defensive end of the Bears Roy Robertson-Harris deflected and landed in the second quarter of the season. Rodgers returned after missing three rounds and rallied the Packers from a 20-0 deficit to a 24-23 win, which is the biggest return of his career. He threw three fourth-quarter touchdown passes – a 39-yard dash to Geronimo Allison, a 12-yard dough to Davante Adams and the 75-yard winner to Randall Cobb with 2:13 left.