“It’s just a longevity achievement,” he said. “Some touchdowns, you make exceptional plays. Some, the scheme is so good, like the one to Jaylen (Warren) in the game. All I’ve got to do is not screw it up. And then sometimes you throw a short one to a guy and he goes 60 and it goes in the column all the same. So there’ve been a lot of guys involved in that, including the guys blocking, the guys calling the plays. Every now and then, I made some special throws that led to touchdowns, but I’ve been playing a long time. It’s a longevity thing that, you know, I’m proud of, but it’s not a big deal.”<\/p>\n
Rodgers threw 4 TD passes last Sunday in leading the Steelers to a 34-32 win over the New York Jets. It was the most TD passes in one game by a Steelers QB making his debut, and the most by any player in the NFL during the past opening weekend.<\/p>\n
Going back to last season’s regular-season finale with the Jets, Rodgers is riding a two-game streak of throwing 4 TD passes in a game. It’s the fourth time he’s had such productive back-to-back games, but he’s never done it in three consecutive games.<\/p>\n
While Rodgers threw TD passes to four different receivers (Ben Skowronek, Jonnu Smith, Warren, Calvin Austin), he didn’t throw one to his camp roommate and the receiver he calls “the lead dog,” DK Metcalf.<\/p>\n
The Steelers and Metcalf are playing his former team, the Seattle Seahawks, on Sunday. Metcalf begs that it’s not a bigger game to him than any other, but Rodgers has a keen eye for such details.<\/p>\n
“DK made two of the bigger plays in the game,” Rodgers said of Metcalf’s 4-for-83 performance against the Jets. “DK played how he plays in practice. The best players can make practice like a game environment, so the game was not too big. I thought he had a nice game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It’s just a longevity achievement,” he said. “Some touchdowns, you make exceptional plays. Some, the scheme is so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[198,7,41,345,2514,2513,6,914,428,61439,63126,915],"class_list":{"0":"post-420751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-non-sponsored","16":"tag-packers","17":"tag-quarterback-weekday-article","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2025-reg-2","19":"tag-sights-and-sounds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115318755511104350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420751","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=420751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}