Aaron Rodgers Once Got Real About the Most Challenging Aspect of Getting Picked 24th Overall

Five years ago, Aaron Rodgers sat down with Graham Bensinger to discuss in-depth the Green Bay Packers Star’s on-field brilliance. Bensinger, known for his detailed questioning, asks Rodgers what it was like to go through that 2005 draft night. Presumably, Rodgers thought he was going to be a top 10 pick. He had researched the top 10 teams thoroughly and knew the GMs and the players from where they were. So he had been into it, through and through. But it wasn’t enough as he sat down in the room with his father, mother, brother, best friend, and agent. After tables around him were emptying fast, Rodgers was calculating which team might add him to their roster.

When Bensinger asks AR12 what the most challenging part of the night was, without thinking, Rodgers says, “The camera being on you the entire time and having to keep it together.”  Rodgers thought it was so challenging to keep it together when all he wanted to do was go somewhere and be alone. He says, “Kind of a ‘wake me up when it is over’ feeling.”

It was an embarrassing moment for the 4-time MVP as he admits, “There’s definitely some embarrassment. Like I accepted the invite thinking I was gonna be a top 10 pick, and this was gonna be a slam dunk. In and Out. Boom.” 

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But that was not to be. The Packers star QB continues, “Next thing you know, I’m 4 hours into this and nobody’s picking me. The toughest stretch was when we get past 16, which I don’t know was the Saints or Carolina or something. Which I knew was a long shot, but the last kind of potential. Between 17-23, there was no way I was getting picked there. All that established starters.”

Aaron Rodgers could not have pointed out Green Bay on a map!

And he was right on that one. Even Green Bay had an established starter in Brett Favre, but he was still at the latter end of his star-studded career. And they would become Rodgers’ saving grace, which would later result in an illustrious future for both Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. At 24th overall, they picked up AR12 and the rest is football history.

The quarterback candidly reveals that he probably couldn’t have figured out Wisconsin on a map. Which was one of the two things that he knew about the Green Bay Packers. One, they were in Wisconsin. And two, that Favre played for them. So Rodgers was in the blind before joining the team. Not that it mattered. Just above a decade and half later, they two are still going strong, and it seems like it was written like this.

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