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Revisiting Aaron Rodgers’ Rocky Relationship With Teammate Brett Favre
Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre had a complicated relationship when Rodgers was drafted by the Packers in 2005, which played itself out both on and off the football field
Patrick McDermott/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesWith the 24th pick in that year’s NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers selected quarterback Aaron Rodgers from the University of California, Berkeley. Packers head coach Mike Sherman took things from bad to worse, asking his rookie quarterback, “Aaron, what do you think, you’re back in high school and you’re getting everybody to sign your yearbook at the end of the year?” As the football gods would have it, Rodgers would later find in a situation similar to Favre’s 2005 scenario, when the Packers drafted quarterback Jordan Love to be his heir apparent with their first-round pick in 2020.
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