The Steelers are Rodgers’ third career team and he is playing in his 21st NFL season. After 18 years with Green Bay, he was traded to the New York Jets, where he technically played two seasons, though the 2023 campaign saw him tear his Achilles early in the season. He signed with the Steelers for this year and has so far helped Pittsburgh to a 4-2 record, completing 68.6% of his passes for 1,270 yards, 14 touchdowns and five interceptions.
However, there’s no denying his glory days were with Green Bay, where he won a Super Bowl, went to 10 Pro Bowls and was voted the AP NFL Most Valuable Player four times.
When Rodgers was traded from the Packers to the Jets, it was hardly all puppies and rainbows towards the end of the relationship, but the 41-year-old has been adamant that Sunday is not a revenge game for him.
So while it might be surprising that Rodgers would hint at his retirement plans now, it’s hardly a shock that he wants to say goodbye as a Packer.
He was the 24th overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, taken by Green Bay to begin a sure-fire, first-ballot Hall of Fame career. Fittingly, no matter how successful his final run with the Steelers might be, he wants to end his career where it all began.
“It was such a tight group for so long there,” Rodgers said of playing in Green Bay from 2005-2022. “I outlasted most of them but it’s fun, that’s why I feel so good about my time there because heck everything that’s great in my life is because of my football career, and my football career starts and will end one day with Green Bay. I’ve got a lot of love for those memories and a lot of great friends that I carry with me to this day.”