


The team starts to heat up after a 4-4 start to the season and a 38-28 loss to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Packers were trailing at the beginning of the fourth quarter when Aaron Rodgers completed a fifty-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Jennings with about a minute remaining in the game to contribute to the 21–15 victory over the Chicago Bears. He recorded his first win in a comeback situation for the opening game of the 2009 season. On October 31, 2008, Aaron Rodgers signed a six-year, $65 million contract extension through the 2014 season. Aaron Rodgers suffered a severe shoulder sprain in the game but continued to start and played well in a win against the Seattle Seahawks two weeks later, which to many proved his toughness. Aaron Rodgers was voted the FedEx Air award winner after passing for 328 yards and three touchdowns in a win against the Detroit Lions. This still stands as the most interceptions he has thrown in a season. He holds the Cal career record for the lowest percentage of passes intercepted at 1.95 percent.Īaron Rodgers played football for Green Bay Packers in 2008 Aaron Rodgers set a Cal single-game record for a passing completion percentage of 85.3. He set a school record for consecutive completed passes with 26 and tied an NCAA record with 23 consecutive passes completed in one game. He led Cal to a 10-1 record and top-five ranking at the end of the regular season, with their only loss a 23-17 loss at No. He passed for 394 yards and was named game MVP in the insight Bowl against Virginia Tech. Due to injury, he was replaced in the second half by Reggie Robertson. He led the teams to a 21-7 halftime lead against #3 USC.

Aaron Rodgers was named the starting quarterback in the fifth game of the 2003 season, beating the only team that offered him a Division I opportunity out of high school, Illinois. He had three years of eligibility at Cal as a junior college transfer. He was eligible to transfer to the University of California, Berkeley after one year of junior college instead of the typical two. Tedford was surprised to learn that he had not been recruited earlier. While, there he was discovered by the California Golden Bear’s head Coach Jeff Tedford, who was recruiting Butte tight end Garrett Cross.
