Aaron Rodgers is an American football quarterback. He plays for the Green Bay Packers of NFL.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career.
- His full name is Aaron Charles Rodgers
- He born in December 2, 1983
- He is an American football quarterback
- He plays for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL)
- Rodgers began his college football career at Butte College in 2002
- Before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley to play for the California Golden Bears
- There he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates
- He was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers
- After backing up Brett Favre for the first three years of his NFL career, Rodgers became the Packers’ starting quarterback in 2008
- In 2010, he led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Earning the Super Bowl MVP
- He was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011
- He was voted league MVP by the Associated Press for the 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021 NFL seasons
- Rodgers is the fifth player to win NFL MVP in consecutive seasons
- Joining Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Joe Montana and Jim Brown.
- Rodgers has led the NFL six times in touchdown-to-interception ratio (2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021)
- Six times in lowest passing interception percentage (2009, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- Four times in passer rating (2011, 2012, 2020, 2021)
- And four times in touchdown passing percentage (2011, 2012, 2020, 2021)
- Three times in total touchdowns (2011, 2016, 2020)
- Twice in touchdown passes (2016, 2020)
- And once in yards per attempt (2011) and completion percentage (2020)
- Rodgers is second on the NFL’s all-time regular-season career passer rating list
- With a regular-season career passer rating of over 100 (the first to ever have a career rating over 100)
- While also having had the highest passer rating
- The best touchdown-to-interception ratio
- And the lowest passing interception percentage in NFL history throughout the entire 2010’s decade
- In the postseason, he is second in touchdown passes, fourth in passing yards, and sixth in all-time passer rating
- In the regular season, he has the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history at 4.83
- He holds the league’s lowest career interception percentage at 1.3 percent
- And the highest single-season passer rating record of 122.5
- Rodgers is considered by many sportscasters and players to be one of the greatest and most talented quarterbacks of all time
- Rodgers is also a four-time winner of the Best NFL Player ESPY Award
- Outside of football, Rodgers has a minority ownership stake in the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
- The Bucks won the 2021 NBA Championship
- Aaron Charles Rodgers was born on December 2, 1983, in Chico, California
- He is the son of Darla Leigh and Edward Wesley Rodgers
- His father is a Texas-born chiropractor who played football as an offensive lineman for the Chico State Wildcats from 1973 to 1976
- He is of English, Irish and German ancestry
- The family moved to Ukiah, California, where he attended Oak Manor Elementary School
- Edward Rodgers tossed a football with his sons Luke, Aaron and Jordan Rodgers, and told them not to drink and not to party in college or they would limit themselves in sports like he did
- He took this advice to heart
- At the age of ten, he was featured on the front page of the Ukiah Daily Journal for his top performance at a local basketball free throw competition
- Later, the family moved to Beaverton, Oregon
- There Rodgers attended Vose Elementary School and Whitford Middle School
- He played baseball in the Raleigh Hills Little League at shortstop, center field and pitcher
- The Rodgers family returned to Chico in 1997
- Aaron attended Pleasant Valley High School
- He started for two years at quarterback and garnering 4,421 passing yards
- He set single-game records of six touchdowns and 440 all-purpose yards
- Rodgers set a single-season school record with 2,466 total yards in 2001
- He graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in spring 2002
- After scoring 1310 in the SAT and with an A− average
- Rodgers has two brothers
- The younger, Jordan, played quarterback at Vanderbilt University and had a brief NFL career with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Although Rodgers and his brothers were raised Christian
- In an interview in 2017 he stated that he no longer affiliated himself with any organized religion
- Rodgers was in a relationship with actress Olivia Munn from 2014 to 2017
- He had a relationship with former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick from 2018 to 2020
- He started dating actress Shailene Woodley in the second half of 2020
- In an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2021, Woodley confirmed that she was engaged to Rodgers
- On February 16, 2022, Rodgers and Woodley called off their engagement
- In April 2018, Rodgers was announced as a limited partner in the Milwaukee Bucks ownership group
- Making him the first active NFL player with an ownership stake in an NBA franchise
- Rodgers has been one of the NFL’s most prominent and vocal players concerning his decision to not be vaccinated with any of the vaccines that combat COVID-19
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