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With Aaron Rodgers officially signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he’s acceptable for immoderate beauteous amusive reunions connected the 2025 schedule.
Not lone volition helium beryllium facing his erstwhile New York Jets teammates successful a Week 1 battle, but the Steelers volition besides beryllium hosting the squad Rodgers won 4 league MVP trophies with implicit his aboriginal Hall of Fame career.
And Rodgers’ Green Bay Packers successor, Jordan Love, can’t hold for the "Sunday Night Football" reunion.
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Green Bay Packers backmost Jordan Love (Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images)
The Packers and Steelers volition quadrate disconnected connected Oct. 26 astatine Acrisure Stadium successful the primetime slot, and Love told Channel 3000 during his circular of play astatine the American Family Insurance Championship connected Friday however overmuch he’s looking guardant to it.
"It’s going to beryllium fun. It’s going to beryllium awesome. I’m excited for it," Love said. "I can’t hold to beryllium connected antithetic sides, gathering up, and I cognize we’ll speech pregame, things similar that. And hopefully we tin speech jerseys after."
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Love was taken 26th wide successful the 2020 NFL Draft, which shocked immoderate considering Rodgers was showing nary signs of slowing down nether center.
Well, it seems to airy an other occurrence successful his belly, arsenic Rodgers went connected to triumph back-to-back MVP awards successful the 2020 and 2021 seasons portion Love learned down him arsenic his backup. But successful 2022, Rodgers saw his last play with the Packers aft an 8-9 record, and Green Bay made it wide who was adjacent up.
Love took each the lessons helium learned from Rodgers and cemented himself arsenic the team’s backmost of the future, going 9-8 with 4,159 yards passing with 32 touchdowns to 11 interceptions successful his 3rd NFL play (first arsenic the team’s starter).
Aaron Rodgers (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
The Packers signed Love to an hold earlier the 2024 season, and though helium dealt with an aboriginal injury, helium went 9-6 implicit his 15 games to pb his squad to the playoffs arsenic Green Bay went 11-6.
While Love is looking to support stacking up playoff seasons, helium was tapped into Rodgers’ offseason travel this year, saying helium wasn’t "too surprised" to spot him take Pittsburgh.
"I was excited for him, that helium was evidently coming backmost and going to beryllium playing. There were besides immoderate rumors that helium mightiness beryllium done, truthful conscionable knowing he’s going to support playing, that’s beauteous awesome."
Love reiterated what he’s said successful the past astir Rodgers, that helium was a bully mentor portion they were teammates contempt Green Bay drafting Rodgers’ successor.
After all, Rodgers went done it himself erstwhile helium was drafted arsenic Brett Favre’s replacement.
Jordan Love and Aaron Rodgers volition beryllium facing disconnected against each different aft the second signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers. (IMAGN)
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"I admit decidedly the mode A-Rod handled being successful that situation, and I deliberation a large portion of it – which helium told maine – was helium knew however it was for him being successful that aforesaid presumption and the things that helium went done and the mode the concern might’ve been handled [differently]. I deliberation position was: ‘I’m trying to spell astir this a small spot differently,’ which I deliberation was awesome," Love explained.
"In my clip with A-Rod, we had a large relationship. It was awesome being successful the aforesaid country with him, being capable to learn."
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