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'I hope you die': 49ers rusher recounts barrage of 2023 death threats

San Francisco 49ers edge rusher Leonard Floyd knows what it’s like to face Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a season opener — and all about the attention that comes with it, particularly the negative kind.

Even though Floyd plays for a different team on the opposite side of the country, his Week 1 matchup is the same as it was last year when he was on the Buffalo Bills: against New York’s AFC team and Rodgers. Last season’s matchup infamously began with the now-40-year-old quarterback tearing his Achilles on his fourth snap of the game after he was sacked by none other than Floyd.