GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Clay Matthews' groin injury, which kept him out of last Sunday's game at Pittsburgh, afforded him the opportunity to spend more time around Aaron Rodgers.
And not just for another State Farm commercial.
The Green Bay Packers linebacker got an up-close look at the quarterback's rehab from his broken collarbone and came away with this revelation: "I think we probably should have kept him off IR."
That doesn't mean Rodgers' collarbone would be healed in time for him to play any earlier than Week 15 at Carolina -- the earliest game he could play in, based on the injured reserve rules that state a player must sit out at least eight games before a team uses one of its two designated-to-return spots.