Aaron Rodgers says Green Bay Packers staff may have leaked information about his controversial toe injury to the media

• Aaron Rodgers says Packers staff may have leaked info about his recent toe injury to the media.
• Rodgers' toe has been a topic of great interest in the NFL recently after he said he had COVID toe.

Aaron Rodgers has suggested that staff members from the Green Bay Packers may have leaked medical information about his recent controversial toe injury to the media.

Rodgers claimed that details of his toe injury, which he initially described as "COVID toe," had come from within Green Bay.

"With these reports, I don't know where they're coming from," Rodgers told Pat McAfee on Sirius XM.

"I don't know who's talking. It seems like there are certain coaches that may have friends in the media that they don't realize are actually just trying to report things."

AJ Hawk, another host of the show and a former Packers linebacker, then asked if Rodgers was referring to Green Bay staff.

"There were guys for a while who had their people who they would leak stuff to," Rodgers said in reply.

Rodgers' toe was a major talking point in the NFL in recent weeks, after he said during the previous week's appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show" that he was suffering from "COVID toe," a condition that can cause skin lesions on a person's toe after they have had the disease.

As Insider's Jackson Thompson reported, multiple studies suggest that the condition is caused by an overly aggressive immune response against the virus. It can last for months after COVID-19 recovery, the studies show.

Rodgers later backtracked, claiming he was joking, and that the real cause of his pain was a fracture to his toe.

He then went one step further, showing reporters his bare foot at a Packers press conference the day before Thanksgiving in an attempt to prove he didn't have the condition.

"Oh! Oh, there's no lesions whatsoever! Oh, what a surprise!" said the 38-year-old sarcastically as he showed off his foot.

"No, that's actually called disinformation, when you perpetuate false information about individuals," Rodgers went on, despite having said the day before that he did indeed have COVID toe.

Speaking this week, Rodgers told McAfee that he was not planning on having toe surgery but if he did, then it would not cause him to miss any games. The Packers have a bye week coming up and do not play again until December 13.

The quarterback has been at loggerheads with Green Bay staff for some time. Reports emerged in the summer that he was unhappy and was looking for an exit, something that did not materialize.

The Packers are currently 9-3 and top the NFC North. The team returns against NFC North rivals the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field.