Everyone knew Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a serious knee injury last year, but it was actually worse than what most people thought. In an interview with ESPN Wisconsin, Rodgers revealed that he actually suffered a tibial plateau fracture along with the MCL sprain:

“I had a tibial plateau fracture, and obviously an MCL sprain, so that was very painful,” said Rodgers about the injury he took from a hit by a Chicago Bears player in the 2018 season opener at Lambeau Field, per WTMJ.com.

Rodgers said the injury was very painful, but he was able to play through it because it wasn't a ‘super weight-bearing, load-bearing' issue:

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“It was the lateral side. If you watch the hit back, my two bones (which) come together on the outside kind of made an indent fracture. Very painful. The good thing was, it's not super weight-bearing, load-bearing every single time, but there are definitely some movements and things you do naturally that affected it.”

There was a lot of talk about how Rodgers threw a lot of passes out of bounds this past season, and it was for good reason as he was trying to avoid taking a big hit to make his injuries worse:

“Obviously, we had a number of throwaways. I'm not sure what the NFL number was, but I know we were averaging almost four a game, and that's going to hurt your completion percentage. There were some times that the mobility definitely hurt me where in years past, I could extend plays or really get out and threaten running the ball or throwing on the run. It affected some of those throws on the run where I wasn't just throwing the ball away.”

The good news for Aaron Rodgers and the Packers is he has had the entire offseason to get healthy, and the expectation is that he will be 100 percent when the team kicks off the season against the Chicago Bears.