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Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Rodgers played college football at the University of California, Berkeley, where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates.
He was selected in the first round 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. As a result, he was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011. He was also voted league MVP after the 2011 NFL season, as well as being voted the top player in the league by his peers. Rodgers has led the NFL twice in passer rating, touchdown-to-interception ratio, touchdown passing percentage, and once each in yards per attempt and lowest passing interception percentage.
Rodgers is the NFL's all-time career leader in passer rating during the regular season with a rating of 104.9 and second all-time in the postseason with a rating of 103.1. He currently is the only quarterback to have a career passer rating of over 100.0 in the regular season as well as having the highest touchdown to interception ratio in NFL history. He also holds the league's lowest career passing interception percentage for quarterbacks during the regular season at 1.8 percent and the single-season passer rating record of 122.5.
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