Aaron Rodgers confirms he's retiring after upcoming season with the Pittsburgh Steelers

The adjacent logical question connected everyone's caput aft Aaron Rodgers agreed to instrumentality for different NFL play past week is: Would helium proceed deciding year-to-year connected however agelong he'd play, oregon would this beryllium his last year?

Well, we person an reply from Rodgers himself.

"Yes," Rodgers told reporters connected Wednesday erstwhile asked if he's retiring aft this year.

"This is it, yeah."

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So, Rodgers intends to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers successful what is his 22nd play and telephone it a vocation aft that.

Now comes the portion wherever immoderate radical volition deliberation this is simply a bully thing, a fitting extremity due to the fact that Rodgers is 42-years-old and volition beryllium 43 successful December, and evidently aged capable to cognize his ain caput and however overmuch helium has near successful the proverbial tank.

Some radical volition deliberation this is terrible, due to the fact that what if he's truly bully this season? What if helium surprises himself? What are we going to bash without Aaron Rodgers quarterbacksplaining to his teammates precisely however to tally the plays they whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person practiced the erstwhile week?

And immoderate people, well, won't judge a connection Rodgers is saying.

Pittsburgh Steelers backmost Aaron Rodgers looks connected aft being sacked during the archetypal fractional of the NFL Wild Card crippled against the Houston Texans astatine Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pa., connected Jan. 12, 2026. (Michael Longo/For USA Today Network-PA / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Because he's been known to alteration his caput before.

He's been known to play with words before.

He's been known to beryllium benignant of hard to foretell some connected and disconnected the field.

All of that is successful play.

But assuming Rodgers does so person a program to play 1 much play and past vanish into backstage beingness — arsenic helium has promised he'd bash successful the past — it has to beryllium said that nary substance what happens this coming season, his bequest is beauteous overmuch already written.

Aaron Rodgers is simply a Super Bowl champion and four-time NFL MVP. Only Peyton Manning, with 5 MVP awards, has won more.

And yes, Rodgers inactive has a accidental to necktie him if helium balls retired this season.

Pittsburgh Steelers backmost Aaron Rodgers looks to implicit a walk during the archetypal 4th astatine Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, Pa., connected Oct. 12, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

Aaron Rodgers presently ranks:

• Fourth all-time successful passing touchdowns with 527.
• Fifth all-time successful passing yards with 66,274.
• And helium is 11th all-time with conscionable implicit 5,696 vocation completions.

Only Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Manning person thrown much TD passes than Rodgers. Rodgers whitethorn eclipse Manning's TD people of 539 this play and decorativeness 3rd connected the all-time list. Brady (649) and Brees (571) are apt retired of scope successful the TD walk category.

Only Brady, Brees, Manning and Brett Favre person much vocation passing yards than Rodgers, who has 66,275. He would person to person an improbable monster play to drawback Manning who finished with 71,838 passing yards.

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The constituent is Rodgers has eye-popping statistic that enactment him among the elite quarterbacks ever to play the game. He is simply a definite aboriginal Hall of Famer.

Will helium beryllium considered among the all-time greats? That's different question.

That's not an reply that ever relies connected statistic but alternatively includes sentiment and fig of Super Bowls won and however the fickle media felt astir a player.

Pittsburgh Steelers backmost Aaron Rodgers audibles during the 2nd fractional of an AFC Wild Card Round crippled against the Houston Texans astatine Acrisure Stadium connected Jan. 12, 2026. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

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The reasoning present is Rodgers won't attraction overmuch astir that.

He knows who helium is, however helium played, and apparently, erstwhile he's walking away.

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