Two New Jersey State Police troopers were injured early Wednesday morning after they were shot by a man with an air rifle in a Sussex County motel, investigators said. The severity of the troopers’ injuries was unknown but they were both “recovering,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement. The incident began as a welfare check at approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Cobmin Ridge Motel on Route 206 in Branchville, according to a release from the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office. Troopers arrived at the motel and made contact with a man, identified Wednesday as 27…