Vikes' Rodgers on angry fan talk: 'Racism is real'

EAGAN, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings cornerback Isaiah Rodgers has received "some of the astir racist comments" helium has seen since entering the NFL, Rodgers posted Monday connected X successful the aftermath of a 28-22 nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles.

A screenshot Rodgers posted connected Instagram showed aggregate messages that included the N-word. In another, a societal media idiosyncratic wrote: "ur worse than Hitler." In a abstracted screenshot, the aforesaid idiosyncratic aboriginal apologized.

Rodgers was the Vikings' superior defender connected 2 large plays that sparked the Eagles, including a 79-yard touchdown walk to DeVonta Smith successful the 3rd 4th and a 45-yard completion to A.J. Brown successful the 4th fourth that sealed the game. He took afloat work aft the game, saying that "I enactment it connected me" and adding: "I came present for a reason, and those benignant of plays I cognize I tin make. So, I enactment it connected me."

In a station connected X, Rodgers wrote that "Racism is real."

Rodgers spent the 2024 play with the Eagles earlier signing a two-year, $15 cardinal escaped cause woody with the Vikings successful March.

In Week 3, helium became the archetypal subordinate successful NFL past to people 2 antiaircraft touchdowns and unit 2 fumbles successful a game. He accomplished each of it successful the archetypal fractional of the Vikings' 48-14 triumph implicit the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Vikings volition adjacent play Thursday nighttime astatine the Los Angeles Chargers.