Rodgers in 2014
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No. 12 Green Bay Packers | |||||||||||||||
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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth: | December 2, 1983 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Chico, California | ||||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight: | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school: | Chico (CA) Pleasant Valley | ||||||||||||||
College: | California | ||||||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 2005 / Round: 1 / Pick: 24 | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
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Roster status: | Active | ||||||||||||||
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Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2016 | |||||||||||||||
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Passer rating: | 104.1 |
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TD–INT: | 297–72 |
Completion %: | 65.1 |
Passing yards: | 36,827 |
Rushing yards: | 2,544 |
Rushing touchdowns: | 25 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Rodgers played college football for California, where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates. He was selected in the first round (24th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers.
After backing up Brett Favre for the first three years of his NFL career, Rodgers became the Green Bay Packers' starting quarterback in 2008 and led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 NFL season; Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP. He was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011, as well as being voted league MVP by the Associated Press for the 2011 and 2014 NFL seasons. Rodgers has led the NFL three times in touchdown-to-interception ratio (2011, 2012, 2014), twice in passer rating (2011, 2012), touchdown passing percentage (2011, 2012) and lowest passing interception percentage (2009, 2014), and once in touchdown passes (2016) and yards per attempt (2011).
Rodgers is the NFL's all-time career leader in passer rating during the regular season with a rating of 104.1 and fourth all-time in the postseason with a rating of 99.4 (among passers with at least 1,500 and 150 pass attempts, respectively). He is the only quarterback to have a career passer rating of over 100.0 in the regular season as well as having the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history at 4.13 touchdowns per interception. He also holds the league's lowest career passing interception percentage for quarterbacks during the regular season at 1.5 percent and the single-season passer rating record of 122.5.