Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers. In 2010, he led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning the Super Bowl MVP. Rodgers is considered by many sportscasters and players to be one of the greatest and most talented quarterbacks of all time.
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Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Rodgers played college football for the California Golden Bears. He was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers. In 2010, he led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning the Super Bowl MVP. Rodgers is considered by many sportscasters and players to be one of the greatest and most talented quarterbacks of all time. Rodgers has led the NFL five times in touchdown-to-interception ratio ; and five times in lowest passing interception percentage ; three times in passer rating, touchdown passing percentage, and in total touchdowns ; twice in touchdown passes and once in yards per attempt and completion percentage. Rodgers is third on the NFL’s all-time regular season career passer rating list, with a regular season Career passer rating of over 100. He also holds the league’s lowest career interception percentage at 1. 4 percent and the highest single-season passer rating record of 122. 5. Rodgers was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011, and was voted league MVP by the Associated Press for the 2011, 2014 and 2020 NFL seasons. Rodgers’ father is a Texas-born chiropractor who played football as an offensive lineman for the Chico State Wildcats from 1973 to 1976. His ancestry includes English, Irish and German. Rodgers attended Pleasant Valley High School, starting for two years at quarterback and garnering 4,421 passing yards.
He set a single-game records of six touchdowns and 440 all-purpose 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 threw 26 touchdowns in his freshman season at Butte Community College, leading the school to a 10–1 record, the NorCal Conference championship, and a No. 2 national ranking. Despite his impressive high school record, Rodgers attracted little interest from Division I programs. In a 2011 interview with E: 60, he attributed the relative lack of attention in the recruiting process to his unimposing physical stature as a high school player at 5’10\” and 165lb. Rodgers had wanted to attend Florida State and play under head coach Bobby Bowden, but was rejected. As a sophomore, he helped lead the Golden Bears to a 7–3 record as a starter. In his second career start, Rodgers led the team to a 21–7 halftime lead against USC #3. He has been a starter for the Packers since 2008, when he became the Packers’ starting quarterback in 2008. In 2011, Rodgers was replaced by Reggie Robertson in the second half of the game against the USC Trojans due to a second half injury. He is not expected to play in the 2014 NFL season due to an injury to USC’s #3 quarterback Reggie Robertson, who is expected to return to the team in the third game of the season. The Packers have not signed Rodgers to a new contract.
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