Green Bay Packers fans had their wish of Aaron Rodgers staying for at least another season with the team granted. The quarterback, meanwhile, reveals an important change he wants to see in the NFL, one that affects a broader group of players and transcends football.

Speaking to Kevin Clark of The Ringer, Rodgers bares his thoughts on what could be done by his fellow athletes, not just in the NFL, to further illuminate the public about mental health issues.

“Well, we should keep talking about it,” Rodgers told me. “Keep talking about ways that we individually deal with stress and deal with anxiety and deal with pressure and deal with depression or loneliness. I think that would really help. Because we, whether we like it or not, have a platform to influence people. And our words are often listened to more than the person who’s not in the public eye as much. So we have an opportunity—not an obligation, an opportunity—to maybe share some of our own ways of dealing with things and break some of the stigma around mental health.”

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Many are still under the assumption that athletes are impervious to mental health issues, but we have also seen numerous pros from different sports and leagues in the past come forward and break their silence about a tough personal situation they are going through, so the Packers' signal-caller hit all the right notes with this take.

Athletes, like the Packers' star, have a unique platform with massive reach and if they could use that to convey the truth and dispel misconceptions about mental health, there’s really nothing to stop them from doing so.