Green Bay Packers: Is Aaron Rodgers having his greatest season yet?
As the Green Bay Packers have clinched the NFC North, is it the quarterback’s best season yet?
It remains one of the more amazing numbers in NFL history. Aaron Rodgers was a first-round pick by the Green Bay Packers in the first round’s latter stages in the 2005 draft. He basically sat for three seasons behind Brett Favre but made the occasional appearance or two. His first year as the primary starter was 2008. All told, he’s played in 194 regular-season contests and made 187 starts during his 16 campaigns in the NFL
Aaron Rodgers has thrown 403 touchdown passes and only 88 interceptions. If you include his 19 postseason appearances, that’s 443 scores and 100 picks. It’s simply astonishing when you consider that the two-time NFL MVP hasn’t served up double-digit interceptions since 2010 — the year he and the team captured Super Bowl XLV.
And you can’t downplay what he’s done when he escapes the pocket, running for 3,222 yards and 30 scores during his storied career.
Rodgers was the league’s MVP in both 2011 and 2014. Of course, neither of those campaigns resulted in the club hoisting a Lombardi Trophy. The former saw the talented performer throw for 4,643 yards and 45 touchdowns with only six interceptions and he did that in 15 games. Three years later, Rodgers amassed 4,381 yards through the air, good for 38 scores and only five picks.
So what about 2020? Well, the efficient performer might be outdoing himself. In 13 outings, he’s hitting on 69.6 percent of his attempts. That’s his best completion percentage since he became the regular starter in 2008.
He’s thrown for 3,685 yards and a league-best 39 scores, 14 to star wideout Davante Adams and nine to unsung tight end Robert Tonyan, with only four interceptions. With the exception of the 38-10 loss at Tampa Bay in Week 6, he’s thrown at least two touchdown passes in his other 12 contests.
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There are still three games to play and who knows what the final numbers will look like. More importantly, Matt LaFleur’s club has repeated as division champions and currently control their destiny in terms of earning the top seed in the NFC playoffs (via Kevin Patra of NFL.com).
So is this Rodgers’ best season to date? He’s already compiled quite an impressive resume and this year, he’s made it look easy for the most part.