As Aaron Rodgers selected the Green Bay Packers as a second consecutive NFC North title and the front porch of the NFC’s leading team, he looked like he was in the best shape, although it has long been noted that his best is behind him is.
At 37, Rodgers is the forerunner of AP Most Valuable Player and is in a position to surpass perhaps the biggest season of his career.
Rodgers has a record-breaking 44-game pass in the NFL this season, which is just one of the Packers’ only season record set by Rodgers in 2011 when he threw 45 – and was named the Most Valuable Player.
Rodgers has been let down twice by continuing a trend of quarterbacks setting new franchise season records this year.
So far, four-star NFL backs have set new franchise singles season records by 2020, and Rodgers is the first fifth.
The youngest was Buffalo Bills full-back Josh Allen on the Monday night Soccer final, with the awarding of Jim Kelly’s season finale.
In his first year with the franchise, Tom Brady set a new standard for Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 16, which broke Jameis Winston’s record just a season ago.
Russell Wilson broke his own Seahawks record of 35 TDs in 2018 with his foursome in Week 14 against the Jets.
Deshaun Watson, who got lost in a season of fighting, is a new record for the Houston Texans, who set the 2009 score of 29 set by Matt Schaub. Watson outscored Schaub in the Texans’ Week 16 defeat to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Rodgers plans to set a new Titletown best on Sunday against the Chicago Bears, against whom he settled 51-5 in the regular season, averaging 2,125 per game.
If Rodgers were to set a new Packers standard for the one-season, it would be the fifth record-setting of the season, the most since 1998, according to NFL Research. The exception to expansion teams will be the most in any season seven, which was done in 1980 and 1963.
Rodgers will likely be the only record holder on Sunday.
Ben Roethlisberger’s 33 passes this season are just one of his Pittsburgh Steelers record of 34 in 2018. But it has already been announced Roethlisberger will not play against the Cleveland Browns because the Steelers have locked up the AFC North. .
Others within the area code of the franchise records are Ryan Tannehill, whose 32 touchdowns in Hall of Famer George Blanda’s 36 in 1961, which is the best as the Titans / Houston Oilers franchise. And AP Offensive Rookie of the Year frontrunner Justin Herbert’s rookie record. 28 TD Tests are six away from Philip Rivers’ franchise record 34 in 2008.
While it takes a rather astonishing outing for Tannehill or Herbert to set single-record records, Rodgers, along with his outstanding 2020, must keep him past his 2011-I.