Green Bay Packers nine-year veteran AJ Hawk has been faced with decreased playing time in the past two weeks, as questions about his health continue to crop up.s
Aaron Rodgers even suggested on an ESPN Milwaukee radio show this week that Hawk has been playing hurt, saying that he's working with "a body that hasn’t been responding, I think, as well as he wanted it to at times this year."
"No, I'm not hurt. My body has bounced back every week," Hawk said Thursday after being told of Rodgers' comments. "I feel better older than I did younger. I think he was just trying to be supportive of a friend or teammate --I don't know."
Hawk is slated to make $3.5 million in salary and bonuses this season and next, with some people speculating that Hawk could even be cut at season's end.
"I've been preparing since the day I walked in here for the day I get cut," Hawk said. "I've been cut before, so whenever they decide to let me roll, that's something I've been preparing for since I was 21 basically, when I got drafted. But I have no idea. I can't predict the future; I definitely don't try to. I don't deal in hypotheticals, that's for sure. They can tap me on the shoulder right now and get me out of here. So our contracts aren't real contracts like that."
"They're not obliged to keep me here through the end of, what, next year, I guess, my contract is."
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