Aaron Charles Rodgers is his full name.1)
On December 2, 1983, he was born.2)
He is a quarterback in American football.3)
He is a member of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers (NFL).4)
Rodgers began his collegiate football career in 2002 at Butte College.5)
Prior to moving to the University of California, Berkeley and playing for the Golden Bears, he achieved a number of career passing records there, including the lowest single-season and career interception rates.6)
The Packers chose him in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft.7)
Rodgers became the Packers' starting quarterback in 2008 after backing up Brett Favre for the first three years of his NFL career.8)
In 2010, he led them to a Super Bowl XLV win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning him the Super Bowl MVP award.9)
In 2011, he was selected Associated Press Athlete of the Year. The Associated Press named him league MVP during the 2011, 2014, 2020, and 2021 NFL seasons.10)
Rodgers joins Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Joe Montana, and Jim Brown as the sixth player to earn NFL MVP in consecutive seasons.11)
Rodgers has led the NFL in touchdown-to-interception ratio six times (2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021), lowest passing interception percentage six times (2009, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), passer rating four times (2011, 2012, 2020, 2021), touchdown passing percentage four times (2011, 2012, 2020, 2021), total touchdowns three times (2011, 2016, 2020), touchdown passes twice (2016, 2020), yards per attempt once (2011) and completion percentage once(2020).12)
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 the highest passer rating, best touchdown-to-interception ratio, and lowest passing interception percentage in NFL history throughout the entire decade of 2010.13)
He ranks second in postseason touchdown throws, fourth in passing yards, and sixth in all-time passer rating.14)
He owns the greatest touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history in the regular season, with 4.83.15)
He has the lowest career interception percentage in the league (1.3%) and the greatest single-season passer rating (122.5).16)
Many sportscasters and athletes see Rodgers as one of the finest and most gifted quarterbacks of all time. He is also a four-time ESPY Award winner for Best NFL Player.17)
Outside of sports, Rodgers owns a minority share in the National Basketball Association's Milwaukee Bucks (NBA). The Bucks won the NBA Championship in 2021.18)
Darla Leigh Rodgers and Edward Wesley Rodgers are his parents. 19)
His father is a physician from Texas who played offensive tackle for the Chico State Wildcats from 1973 to 1976. He is descended from English, Irish, and German ancestors.20)
Edward Rodgers threw a football with his kids Luke, Aaron, and Jordan Rodgers and warned them not to drink or party in college or else they would be limited in sports as he was.21)
He was highlighted on the front page of the Ukiah Daily Journal at the age of 10 for his outstanding performance in a local basketball free throw tournament.22)
The family then relocated to Beaverton, Oregon. Rodgers went to Vose Elementary School and Whitford Middle School there.23)
He played shortstop, center field, and pitcher in the Raleigh Hills Little League.24)
Aaron graduated from Pleasant Valley High School. He started at quarterback for two years and accumulated 4,421 passing yards. He set single-game marks with six touchdowns and 440 yards all-purpose. In 2001, Rodgers set a single-season school record with 2,466 total yards. He graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in the spring of 2002 with a SAT score of 1310 and an A average.25)
Rodgers has two younger brothers. Jordan, the younger, attended Vanderbilt University and had a brief NFL career with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.26)
Rodgers and his brothers were reared as Christians. In a 2017 interview, he declared that he was no longer involved with any organized religion.27)
From 2014 through 2017, Rodgers was in a relationship with actress Olivia Munn.28)
From 2018 until 2020, he was in a relationship with former NASCAR racer Danica Patrick.29)
In the second part of 2020, he began dating actress Shailene Woodley. Woodley revealed her engagement to Rodgers during an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2021.30)