Aaron Rodgers might be the starting quarterback for the Steelers right now, but with Pittsburgh hosting his old team, the Green Bay Packers in Week 8, he’s thinking about his past and future. Per ESPN, Rodgers stated that he would like to retire in Green Bay when it’s time to call it a career.
“Regardless of when I hang it up, that’s the bulk of my career,” Rodgers said. “I’ll retire a Packer and see what happens after that. I’ve got a lot of love for the organization [and] my time there. They requested this week is it a revenge sport or no matter. What do I obtained to be avenging right here? They made me a ton of cash. I grew up there, spent a number of the finest years of my life there. I’ve obtained nothing however love for the group.”
Rodgers went as far as to say that he wished that this sport was in Inexperienced Bay, at Lambeau Discipline, somewhat than in Pittsburgh, “simply due to the love I’ve for that place and that hallowed floor of Lambeau Discipline and all of the wonderful reminiscences that I’ve there over time.”
In his first season with the Steelers, Rodgers has began all six video games that he is performed in, serving to Pittsburgh to a 4-2 file. The 42-year-old veteran, in his twenty first season within the NFL, has amassed 1,270 passing yards and 14 touchdowns towards 5 interceptions in these contests, good for a passer ranking of 105, forward of final season’s 90.5 with the New York Jets.
Rodgers performed the primary 18 years of his profession with the Packers, changing into the full-time starter in 2008, and ended up with over 59,000 passing yards and 475 touchdowns simply with Inexperienced Bay earlier than he was traded to the Jets in 2023. The Packers had drafted present QB Jordan Love in 2020, and had been ready to make him their starter after he spent two years as Rodgers’ backup, simply as Rodgers had been Brett Favre’s backup in Inexperienced Bay at the start of his personal profession.
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