Aaron Rodgers has a beef with reporter Molly Knight over an article that she didn’t even write.
On Wednesday, a day after he joked about having “Covid toe” on the Pat McAfee Show, the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton took the Packers QB on his word and reported the Covid toe injury as fact.
Aaron Rodgers returned to the field after his case of Covid-19, but now he is dealing with a painful toe injury he called Covid Toe. This is what science says about Covid Toe and what the Green Bay Packers star is facing. https://t.co/aa3zPTsHrR
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 24, 2021
While explaining that he had a broken toe and not Covid toe, Rodgers misidentified Molly Knight as the writer of the article while blasting the Wall Street Journal for sharing “disinformation.”
Rodgers said it's not COVID toe. He was just joking around with @PatMcAfeeShow yesterday and ripped the Wall Street Journal story about him supposedly having COVID toe. He lifted up his foot so we could see he had no signs of COVID toe. He won't miss any time because of this.
— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) November 24, 2021
Aaron Rodgers was clearly waiting for the COVID-toe question because you can hear him say, “I don’t know if I have room to get my toe up there,” at the start of his press conference.
Here’s his full answer about his fractured toe — with said toe on the screen. pic.twitter.com/hoC2UZTxME
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) November 24, 2021
“I expect a full apology from Molly Knight and whoever her editor was. I did get a kick out of reading that article. That was very, very interesting. But no I had never heard of COVID toe before. Pat made a joke about it on the show, and I mentioned yesterday that it’s worse than a turf toe and it must be a bone issue. I can’t believe I again have to come on the air and talk about my medical information. But yeah. I have a fractured toe, I’ve never heard of COVID toe before, I have no lesions on my feet. That’s just a classic case of disinformation. It’s surprising, coming from what used to be a reputable journalistic institution. But that’s the world we live in these days.”
Knight, who shared a link to the Wall Street Journal piece on her Twitter page along with a sarcastic joke, revealed that she was being harassed by angry Packers fans after Rodgers misidentified her as the author of the WSJ story.
Since there seems to be some confusion: I did not write the Aaron Rodgers Covid toe article. I do not work for the Wall Street Journal. Please stop all this hate. Thank you.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
I have no idea why Aaron Rodgers said my name in a press conference. I am only finding out about it now because it’s absolutely insane. I retweeted the WSJ article and then went to spin class then a homeless feed. https://t.co/BuG8H3KM8B
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
Like how in the world? This is so surreal. Please stop harassing me. Please. I did not write the article.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
Knight even asked WSJ writer Andrew Beaton to publicly state that she was not the author of the article.
Since Aaron Rodgers publicly called me out thinking I wrote your article when i just RTd it, and now Packer fans are wishing my death, can you please correct the record here?
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) November 24, 2021