Quarterback · Pittsburgh Steelers

Aaron Rodgers

No. 8 · 22nd season

Tom Brady just handed Aaron Rodgers the highest compliment in football

There are people whose opinion on this topic actually counts. Tom Brady is one of them.

Rodgers has spent the better part of two decades drawing comparisons — to Brady, to the greats before them both, to whoever came up next. That conversation never really ends in football. But when the person who won more than anyone else points across the room and says "that guy throws it better than I ever did," it lands differently than a take from a studio desk.

Brady made it plain: no one who has ever played throws the football better than Aaron Rodgers.Not a qualifier about era, not a hedge about circumstances. Not a qualifer about era, not a hedge about circumstances. A flat statement from someone who played against the best defenses and the best passers for twenty-three years.

For Rodgers, who is now carrying more questions than he has in years — about his health, about what this chapter of his career looks like — that kind of recognition is its own thing. It does not answer the questions. But it does remind anyone watching what they are still looking at.

The resume will always be argued. The arm, apparently, is settled.

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