Aaron
Rodgers
The four-time NFL MVP from Chico, California, is playing what he calls his final season, at 42, as the starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers spent 18 years with the Green Bay Packers, won Super Bowl XLV, and holds some of the league’s most famous passing records. Off the field, he has kept fans guessing for years, most of all about Brittani, the woman he quietly married in early 2025 and still keeps out of the spotlight.
| Date of Birth | December 2, 1983 |
|---|---|
| Age | 42 years |
| Nationality | American |
| Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
| Occupation | NFL Quarterback |
| Team | Pittsburgh Steelers (2025 to present) |
| Former Teams | Green Bay Packers (2005 to 2022), New York Jets (2023 to 2024) |
| College | Butte College, then California (Golden Bears) |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Spouse | Brittani (married 2025) |
| Parents | Ed and Darla Rodgers |
| Siblings | Luke Rodgers, Jordan Rodgers |
| Honours | 4x NFL MVP, Super Bowl XLV MVP, 10 Pro Bowls |
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Deb HaalandBiography
Aaron Charles Rodgers was born on December 2, 1983, in Chico, California, to Edward Wesley Rodgers and Darla Leigh Rodgers (née Pittman). He is the middle of three sons. His older brother is Luke, and his younger brother, Jordan, also played quarterback at Vanderbilt before moving into television.
Football runs in the family. His father, a chiropractor, played on the offensive line at Chico State. Speaking on Cam Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast in September 2026, Rodgers said his dad “was a 255-lb guard” and that his parents met at Chico State in the 1970s and married in 1980. He also told the story of his grandfather, a World War II airman who was shot down over Hungary and held in a prisoner-of-war camp.
The family moved to Ukiah and later Beaverton, Oregon, before settling back in Chico, where Rodgers went to Pleasant Valley High School. He was a skinny, undersized passer, and no major college offered him a scholarship. So he went to Butte College, a local junior college, in 2002, and threw 26 touchdown passes in one season.
That season changed his life. California coach Jeff Tedford spotted him while scouting a Butte teammate, and Rodgers joined the Golden Bears in 2003. In two seasons at Cal he set school records for the lowest interception rate, and he led the team to a 10-1 regular season in 2004.
Career
The Draft Slide and the Favre Years
Rodgers went into the 2005 NFL Draft as a possible first overall pick. Instead, the San Francisco 49ers took Alex Smith, and Rodgers sat in the green room for hours as team after team passed. The Green Bay Packers finally picked him 24th overall, and he signed a five-year rookie deal worth about $7.7 million.
For three seasons he sat behind Brett Favre. When Favre left in 2008, Rodgers became the starter and signed a six-year, $65 million extension that October. Two years later he led the Packers to a 31-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV and was named the game’s MVP.
MVP Seasons in Green Bay
The 2011 season was one of the best by any quarterback. The Packers went 15-1, and Rodgers posted a 122.5 passer rating, still the NFL single-season record, on the way to his first NFL MVP award. In April 2013 he signed a five-year, $110 million extension that made him the league’s highest-paid player.
He won a second MVP award in 2014, the season he famously told worried Packers fans to “R-E-L-A-X” during a slow start. After the Packers drafted Jordan Love in 2020, Rodgers answered with back-to-back MVP seasons in 2020 and 2021, giving him four in total. Only Peyton Manning has more.
His contracts kept growing. In August 2018 he signed a four-year, $134 million deal, and in March 2022 he agreed to a three-year contract worth $150.8 million, which made him the highest-paid player in North American sports by yearly average at the time.
The Jets and the Achilles Injury
On April 26, 2023, Green Bay traded Rodgers to the New York Jets. His Jets debut lasted four snaps. He tore his left Achilles tendon against the Buffalo Bills on September 11, 2023, and had surgery two days later.
He came back in 2024, threw for 3,897 yards and 28 touchdowns, and became the fifth quarterback to throw 500 career touchdown passes on January 5, 2025. The team still finished 5-12, and the Jets released him in March 2025. The Netflix docuseries Aaron Rodgers: Enigma, released in December 2024, followed his recovery and the build-up to that season.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Rodgers signed a one-year deal with the Steelers in June 2025, worth $13.65 million with $10 million guaranteed. He opened with four touchdown passes against the Jets, played through at least three fractures in his left wrist, and threw the winning touchdown to Calvin Austin III against the Baltimore Ravens to clinch the AFC North, according to CBS Sports. He finished with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, but Pittsburgh lost to the Houston Texans in the wild-card round.
Head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down a day after that loss, and the Steelers hired Mike McCarthy, his old Packers coach. Rodgers re-signed on May 18, 2026, for one year, with $22 million guaranteed and up to $25 million in total. He has said 2026 will be his last NFL season. Speaking to Kyle Brandt on NFL Network on August 1, 2026, he said he had almost closed the door on playing before McCarthy’s hiring changed his mind, and he joked that life after football would be his “Keyser Söze chapter.”
The final season has been bumpy but winning so far. On October 18, 2026, Pittsburgh came back from 16-3 down to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-19 in overtime, with Rodgers going 33 of 49 for 253 yards and two touchdowns. That win moved the Steelers to 4-2 ahead of their October 25 game against the New Orleans Saints at the Stade de France, the NFL’s first regular-season game in Paris.
Through Week 6 of 2026, Rodgers has 67,761 career passing yards and 539 passing touchdowns.
Television and Business
Rodgers guest-hosted Jeopardy! for two weeks in April 2021, six years after winning $50,000 for charity on Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2015. In April 2018 he became a limited partner in the Milwaukee Bucks, the first active NFL player with a stake in an NBA team, and the Bucks won the NBA title in 2021.
Controversies and Disputes
The “Immunized” Comment (2021)
In August 2021, Rodgers told reporters he was “immunized” against COVID-19. In November 2021 he tested positive, and it came out that he had not been vaccinated and had used a homeopathic treatment instead. He missed a game, the NFL fined him $14,650 and fined the Packers $300,000. Five years later, on Not Just Football, he joked about the label still following him as “the non-vaxed, you know, immunized guy.”
Jimmy Kimmel (2024)
On The Pat McAfee Show in January 2024, Rodgers suggested that talk show host Jimmy Kimmel could be named in documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein. He offered no evidence. Kimmel denied it and threatened legal action, and McAfee later ended Rodgers’ regular segment for the rest of that season.
Politics and Plant Medicine
In March 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had Rodgers on his shortlist of possible running mates for his independent presidential campaign, before picking Nicole Shanahan. Rodgers has also spoken openly about drinking ayahuasca on retreats in Peru, which he credits with changing how he sees himself. On the Heyward podcast he joked, “I’m retired from plant medicine. Effective immediately.”
Family Rift
For about a decade, Rodgers was not on speaking terms with his parents and his brother Jordan. The split became public in 2016, when Jordan said on The Bachelorette, “Me and Aaron don’t really have that much of a relationship.” In Enigma, Aaron said he was never invited to that televised hometown dinner and still disliked how the family’s issues were aired on TV. The rift ended in 2026 (see Personal Life below).
Awards and Nominations
Rodgers won the NFL Most Valuable Player award in 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021. He was named Super Bowl XLV MVP in February 2011 and the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 2011. He has 10 Pro Bowl selections.
His records include the lowest single-season interception rate (0.3% in 2018), the highest career passer rating among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 attempts (102.5), 402 straight passes without an interception, and the fastest run to 400 touchdown passes (193 games).
Personal Life
Aaron Rodgers’ Wife, Brittani
Aaron Rodgers’ wife is a woman named Brittani, whom he married in early 2025. He has never made her surname public or posted a photo of the two of them, and he has said she does not want to be in the public eye. He first spoke about dating “Brittani” on The Pat McAfee Show in December 2024.
The marriage came out by accident. At Steelers minicamp on June 10, 2025, reporters noticed a ring on his left hand. “Yeah, it’s a wedding ring,” he said, and when asked how long he had been married, he replied, “It’s been a couple months,” according to ESPN.
He told the full love story on Cam Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast in September 2026. “In 2017, I met my wife,” he said. She was living in Austin and had studied at the University of Texas, and she was about to move back to Europe. “My biggest regret is not begging her to stay or just like proposing right there,” he said.
They stayed in touch across the ocean, but both got engaged to other people. “I knew I was supposed to be with this one person and I couldn’t,” Rodgers said. “Luckily for me, we came back together.” Asked how he proposed, he said, “We eloped,” and added that he had “a little something set up” as a surprise for her.
Brittani’s family has played a part in his football career too. Rodgers told The New York Times in August 2025 that his new sister-in-law, Mia, pushed him toward Pittsburgh, joking, “I was taking orders from my (new) sister-in-law.” Speaking to NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt in July 2025, he said, “To have that person who unconditionally loves you, there’s no better feeling in the world.”
She also helped him decide to play in 2026. Rodgers told Sports Illustrated that once McCarthy was hired, his wife told him, “You can do one more year, see if it works out.”
Children
Rodgers and Brittani have no children. On the Heyward podcast he talked about being older and wanting to start a family, but the couple has not announced a pregnancy.
Past Relationships
Before Brittani, Rodgers had three high-profile relationships. He dated actress Olivia Munn from 2014 to 2017, then racing driver Danica Patrick from early 2018 to July 2020.
In 2020 he began dating actress Shailene Woodley. He announced the engagement during his MVP speech in February 2021, and they ended it in February 2022 after a brief try at getting back together. On the Heyward podcast, Rodgers pushed back on how both Patrick and Woodley have described those years, and said he was “emotionally unavailable” for the “seven or eight years” after he first met Brittani.
Making Peace With His Family
In 2026, Rodgers reconciled with his parents and both brothers. He said he met his parents on their last day in Chico, at the house he had built for them, before they moved to Nashville to be near their grandchildren. Within weeks he also met his older brother Luke and then Jordan, and in July 2026 he shared photos from a week with his family in Nashville.
He gives Brittani much of the credit. “I have to give a lot of credit to my wife,” he told Kyle Brandt on NFL Network on August 1, 2026, adding that she never pressured him and that “having her by my side during this process has been really special.” On Not Just Football he went further: “When you’re loved by someone in such an unconditional and beautiful, pure way, it changes your perspective on all your relationships.”
Timeline
1983: Born on December 2 in Chico, California.
2002: Plays one season at Butte College and throws 26 touchdown passes.
2003: Joins the California Golden Bears.
2005: Drafted 24th overall by the Green Bay Packers.
2008: Becomes the Packers’ starter and signs a six-year, $65 million extension.
2011: Wins Super Bowl XLV and its MVP award in February.
2012: Wins his first NFL MVP award for the 2011 season.
2013: Signs a five-year, $110 million extension.
2014: Starts dating Olivia Munn.
2015: Wins $50,000 for charity on Celebrity Jeopardy! and a second MVP award.
2016: Brother Jordan speaks about their distance on The Bachelorette.
2017: Meets Brittani; split from Munn.
2018: Signs a four-year, $134 million deal, buys into the Milwaukee Bucks, and starts dating Danica Patrick.
2020: Splits from Patrick and starts dating Shailene Woodley.
2021: Third MVP award, engagement to Woodley announced, Jeopardy! guest-host stint and the “immunized” controversy.
2022: Fourth MVP award; engagement to Woodley ends; signs a $150.8 million deal.
2023: Traded to the New York Jets in April and tears his Achilles on September 11.
2024: Kimmel controversy in January; RFK Jr. shortlist in March; Enigma premieres on Netflix in December.
2025: Throws his 500th touchdown pass on January 5; released by the Jets in March; elopes with Brittani; signs with the Steelers in June; wins the AFC North.
2026: Steelers lose in the wild-card round in January; re-signs with Pittsburgh on May 18; reconciles with his family; reveals his love story on Not Just Football in September; beats Tampa Bay in overtime on October 18 to reach 4-2.
Net Worth
Aaron Rodgers’ net worth is estimated at $157–213 million in 2026. Almost all of it comes from football. He has made about $395 million in NFL salary through the 2025 season, second only to Matthew Stafford on the all-time list, according to Spotrac figures reported by the AJC.
The biggest pieces were his Packers contracts: $110 million in 2013, $134 million in 2018, and the $150.8 million deal of 2022. Endorsements add a steady layer on top, about $9 million a year according to Forbes’ rankings of top-paid athletes, with partners over the years including State Farm, Adidas and Bose. His 2026 Steelers deal pays up to $25 million more.
Our figure assumes he kept and invested about a quarter of his pre-tax earnings, which is typical for a top US athlete after taxes, agents and living costs. It does not add a separate value for his small Milwaukee Bucks stake, since its size has never been published. He also owns a home near Montclair, New Jersey, which he bought new for $9.5 million during his Jets years, according to Newsweek.
For comparison, Patrick Mahomes is still early in a much larger contract, so Rodgers’ fortune is bigger today, but younger stars on $50 million-plus deals will likely pass him within a few years. With 2026 set as his last season, his future income will depend on media work and the businesses he chooses after football.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Aaron Rodgers’ wife?
His wife is Brittani, a private woman he met in Austin, Texas, in 2017. They eloped in early 2025, and he confirmed the marriage at Steelers minicamp in June 2025. He has never shared her last name.
How old is Aaron Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers is 42 years old. He was born on December 2, 1983, in Chico, California. His wife’s age has not been made public.
Does Aaron Rodgers have kids?
No. Aaron Rodgers has no children. He has spoken about wanting to start a family with Brittani.
Who were Aaron Rodgers’ ex-girlfriends?
His best-known past partners are Olivia Munn (2014 to 2017), Danica Patrick (2018 to 2020) and Shailene Woodley, his fiancée from 2021 until they split in February 2022.
How tall is Aaron Rodgers?
He is listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m).
What is Aaron Rodgers’ net worth?
Aaron Rodgers’ net worth is estimated at $157–213 million, built mostly from about $395 million in NFL salary plus endorsements.
