Aaron Rodgers MOCKED by Jets owner and Trump supporter Woody Johnson over RFK Jr running mate links - comparing it to his darkness retreat and branding the reports 'a momentary distraction'

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson dismissed suggestions Aaron Rodgers could have ever quit football to be vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr's running mate.

Johnson, a Donald Trump supporter, insisted his quarterback is fully focused on getting back out on the field after tearing his Achilles last season after just four minutes of his Jets debut.

But Johnson, 76, might have gone a bit too far for his quarterback's liking in rejecting the vice-president links by comparing it to the darkness retreat Rodgers embarked on last year.

'He is getting back to football 100 percent,' Johnson told FOX News. 'He never left football. That (running mate speculation) was a momentary distraction — maybe like going into a dark room or whatever.

'But he’s back 100 percent. Great leader. I tell the receivers: ‘You count to 10, hold your hands up and look around, the ball will be there.'

'If we can keep him on his feet, which I think we can, it’s going to be an exciting start to the season.'

Rodgers went on a darkness retreat last year in the offseason to consider retirement after the Green Bay Packers failed to make the NFL Playoffs. When he resurfaced after four days, Rodgers decided to play on and clinch his trade to New York and spoke highly of the impact of the darkness retreat.

'What I saw in both the third and fourth days, I saw myself, my full self at the end of that journey on the one side – and I saw my full self at the end of that journey on the other side. I wasn't missing anything,' Rodgers said. 

But after a summer of extreme excitement in the Big Apple, Rodgers snapped his Achilles after being tackled by Leonard Floyd of the Buffalo Bills just minutes into the game.

His left foot got caught in the turf, his Achilles snapped and his season ended as quickly as it began, despite his best efforts to make a recovery if the Jets made the playoffs.

Rodgers, like RFK Jr, is anti-vax and is open about his decision not to get vaccinated against Covid-19. 

Last month, while Rodgers was on an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica, the New York Times said that the NFL legend was being considered to Kennedy's running mate.

The report said Rodgers and RFK Jr. had been talking 'pretty continuously' about the Jets star serving as his running mate, and that the NFL star 'welcomed' the discussions.

Johnson, meanwhile, served under Trump as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.