Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers is also playing for the Green Bay Packers in the new NFL season. As the 38-year-old himself confirmed via Twitter on Tuesday, the franchise agreed with him to continue his career with the four-time Super Bowl winner from Wisconsin. Since the end of the season, the Packers had said they wanted to keep Rodgers.
There was confusion about the content of the contract rumored by various media: According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, it should be a four-year contract worth 200 million dollars that would make Rodgers the highest-paid player in football history. 153 million of them should therefore be guaranteed.
However, sports podcaster Pat McAfee, who has a close relationship with Rodgers and who has often been a guest on his show, publicly questioned the information. “According to my sources,” McAfee wrote on Twitter, that the information on the contract term and salary volume was incorrect.
Rodgers himself confirmed this a little later. “To clarify a few things,” he wrote via Twitter. “Yes, I will return to the Packers.” However, it is wrong that he has already signed a contract. The information about the content is also wrong.
In February, Rodgers was named the MVP, the most valuable player in the league, for the fourth time. Two days before the Super Bowl, he received the prestigious award for the second time in a row. In the NFL regular season, he had 37 touchdowns and 4,115 passing yards in just four interceptions.
Nevertheless, he and his team, which also includes the German pass receiver Equanimeous St. Brown, were surprisingly eliminated in the play-offs against the San Francisco 49ers.
