{"id":110784,"date":"2025-06-07T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110784\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:52:12","slug":"aaron-rodgers-looks-to-join-unique-group-of-nfl-quarterbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110784\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers Looks to Join Unique Group of NFL Quarterbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers can become one of five quarterbacks in NFL history to beat all 32 teams with a win over the Green Bay Packers in Week 8 at Acrisure Stadium. It will be Rodgers\u2019 first meeting against his former team since departing Green Bay after the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>The storylines for the Steelers-Packers showdown on Sunday Night Football will be endless.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With a win over the Packers, Rodgers will join Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees on the all-time list of QBs to beat all 32 NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers is on the verge of breaking several NFL milestones in his 21st season. He needs just 1,337 passing yards to surpass Ben Roethlisberger for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/history\/leaders\/_\/stat\/passyards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fifth-most all-time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">fifth-most all-time<\/a>, and needs six passing touchdowns to surpass Brett Favre for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/history\/leaders\/_\/stat\/tdpasses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fourth-most all-time;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">fourth-most all-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers will start their fifth different quarterback in Week 1 since 2021. Ben Roethlisberger (2021), Mitch Trubisky (2022), Kenny Pickett (2023), Justin Fields (2024) and now Rodgers in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Mike Tomlin was the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mike-tomlin-driving-force-aaron-193303631.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:driving force;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driving force<\/a> in Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/breaking-aaron-rodgers-plans-sign-191908708.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:landing with the Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landing with the Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteelers never wavered in their belief that Aaron Rodgers eventually would sign with Pittsburgh. Steelers HC Mike Tomlin loomed large in this entire situation. Tomlin was a drawing card for Rodgers, and was happy to work within Rodgers\u2019 timeline. He is a major reason that Rodgers will be a Steeler,\u201d Schefter wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Team president Art Rooney II revealed that the Steelers will wear new alternate uniforms and a new <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/report-steelers-set-debut-alternate-172046903.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:alternate helmet;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alternate helmet<\/a> against the Packers in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have a new throwback uniform this year, and with a new helmet to go with it,\u201d Rooney said in his statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/news\/rooney-on-the-team-s-2025-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released on the Steelers\u2019 official website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released on the Steelers\u2019 official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re planning to wear our new throwbacks for the Packers game on Sunday night, Oct. 26. It\u2019ll be fun to wear our throwbacks against one of the older franchises in the league \u2013 that just seems to be appropriate. We\u2019ll be doing our Color Rush uniforms late in the year. I think we\u2019re going to do it for the Monday night game on Dec. 15 against the Miami Dolphins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers Now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers Now<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/aaron-rodgers-looks-to-join-unique-group-of-nfl-quarterbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aaron Rodgers Looks to Join Unique Group of NFL Quarterbacks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aaron Rodgers Looks to Join Unique Group of NFL Quarterbacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers can become one of five quarterbacks in NFL history to beat all 32&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1586,4191,6594,6461,13189,7,41,345,493,570,216,1255,4081,6,8083,57,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-110784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-adam-schefter","10":"tag-ben-roethlisberger","11":"tag-brett-favre","12":"tag-drew-brees","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-green-bay","15":"tag-green-bay-packers","16":"tag-justin-fields","17":"tag-kenny-pickett","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-mike-tomlin","20":"tag-mitch-trubisky","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-peyton-manning","23":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","24":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114641236656071815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}