Aaron Rodgers calls Jets training camp his hardest ‘in last seven or eight’ years

Aaron Rodgers got a heads-up before training camp.

He knew coach Robert Saleh wanted to have a more strenuous, difficult summer that would test the Jets — and specifically their starters.

There are risks with that approach.

One viewpoint, Rodgers said, is that it puts strain on players. It could get blamed for injuries.

But the counter to that paints the strategy as one that would allow the Jets to get more prepared.

Rodgers called this the hardest training camp “in the last seven or eight [years] of my career,” and Saleh told him recently that starters were “somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 more reps” at this point of camp than in 2023.