Former New England Patriot Julian Edelman Slams Aaron Rodgers for Mysterious Absence From Minicamp: ‘Bad Look for Your Leader’

Former New England Patriot Julian Edelman isn’t a fan of Aaron Rodgers’ decision to miss the New York Jets’ mandatory minicamp for some “important” event.

Last week, Rodgers made headlines when Jets coach Robert Saleh announced that he’d be absent from the team’s three-day minicamp. As attendance was mandatory, his absence was listed as unexcused and he’s subject to fines according to the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Saleh didn’t explicitly say why Rodgers was absent, but he said it was an “important event” for him.

Days later, an NFL insider seemingly implied that Rodgers was somewhere taking ayahuasca, the psychoactive substance he’s used in the past. Rodgers himself has not spoken publicly amid the media frenzy, so the exact details of his trip have not been confirmed.

Regardless of those details, Edelman called it a “bad look.”

“I guarantee there’s four of five guys, six, seven, eight, nine guys in that locker room sitting there like, ‘Where’s he at?'” Edelman said on Friday’s episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd. “Now, if they start 4-0, no one’s gonna care; but this is the NFL. I think it’s a bad look for your leader, for whatever reason, to go and miss an unexcused absence.

“I mean, I was with Tom Brady in his 25th year, 23rd year, and he started missing OTAs here and there; but he was still there. Never missed a mandatory minicamp. I just thought it was a bad look.”

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