Packers QB Rodgers to sit until Thursday

Oct 6, 2008 - 8:13 PM GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Ticker) -- Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will not see the practice field until Thursday at the earliest.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy announced Monday that while Rodgers is improving, he will treat his quarterback's sprained right shoulder with caution.

"I'm not going to practice him Wednesday, and we're going to stay in the rehab," McCarthy said. "Then we're looking at potentially limited Thursday was the conversation we had with the doctors, and we'll take it from there."

Rodgers hurt the shoulder in a 30-21 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on September 28.

Although he was listed as a game-time decision in Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons, Rodgers started and finished finished 25-of-37 for 313 yards and three touchdowns. But he threw a costly interception in the waning minutes of a 27-24 defeat.

"I thought he had an excellent performance with everything he was dealing with," McCarthy said. "The biggest negative was the interception. Throwing across your body late over the middle like that is definitely ... I don't think it has anything to do with (a lack of) practice time because that's a play he's run time and time again."

A former first-round draft selection, the 24-year-old Rodgers has passed for 1,274 yards and nine touchdowns in his first season as a starter since replacing the legendary Brett Favre, who was traded to the New York Jets.