GREEN BAY — Aaron Rodgers plans on playing in Thursday night’s preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers —not because he needs to in order to be ready for the Green Bay Packers’ regular-season opener on Sept. 9, but because his teammates need the in-game work with him.
And, because he’s missed playing at Lambeau Field, since it’ll have been 322 days since the Packers quarterback last laced up his Adidas cleats and set foot on the not-so-frozen tundra in a game.
“I think I’ll probably play this week. I’d like to in front of our fans, being that we have the first two (regular-season games) at home it would be nice to get out there, back on Lambeau,” Rodgers said Monday, referring to the Packers’ opener against the Chicago Bears and their Sept.