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Despite winning back-to-back NFL MVPs, Aaron Rodgers is still openly pondering stepping away from football.
Speaking with reporters on Wednesday after winning The Match, an exhibition golf event featuring Rodgers, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, the Green Bay Packers signal-caller admitted that he “sees the end coming.”
“I think about it all the time,” Rodgers said, per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. “When you commit, you’re 100 percent. But the older you get, the interests change, and the grind, I think, wears on you a little more. . . . The football part is the easy part. That’s the joy. It’s the other stuff that wears on you and makes you think about life after football. Tommy obviously set the bar so high with playing so many years, but I can definitely see the end coming.”
Aaron Rodgers came under immense scrutiny last season for initially suggesting he was vaccinated against COVID-19, only to later reveal he was alluding to alternative forms of preemptive treatment when he tested positive for the virus. He missed just one game with COVID, though continued haranguing against vaccine mandates and public health measures, even spreading misinformation about vaccine side effects.
Rodgers' performance on the field was unaffected, though, as he threw for 4,115 yards, 37 touchdowns and four interceptions, winning his second consecutive MVP award and fourth of his career. The Packers fell to the San Francisco 49ers 13-10 in the first round of the playoffs.
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The 38-year-old teased continuing his career elsewhere following an extremely volatile 2021 season in Green Bay, but ultimately signed a three-year, $150 million contract to remain with the Packers.
