Rodgers blir bäst betald någonsin – får 1,3 miljarder
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers har skrivit på en kontraktsförlängning som innebär att han blir amerikanska fotbollsligan NFL:s bäst betalda spelare någonsin, skriver amerikanska medier.
Rodgers uppges få 134 miljoner dollar, motsvarande 1,3 miljarder kronor, för ytterligare fyra år i Packers. Dessutom ska han ha fått en ”signing bonus” på 57 miljoner dollar.
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Aaron Rodgers
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Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Rodgers played college football for the California Golden Bears, where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates. He was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers.After backing up Brett Favre for the first three years of his NFL career, Rodgers became the Packers' starting quarterback in 2008 and led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers after the 2010 NFL season; Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP. He was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011, as well as being voted league MVP by the Associated Press for the 2011 and 2014 NFL seasons. Rodgers has led the NFL three times in touchdown-to-interception ratio (2011, 2012, 2014); twice in passer rating (2011, 2012), touchdown passing percentage (2011, 2012), and lowest passing interception percentage (2009, 2014); and once in touchdown passes (2016) and yards per attempt (2011).
Rodgers is the NFL's all-time regular season career leader in passer rating with a rating of 103.8 and fourth all-time among passers with at least 1,500 and 150 postseason pass attempts with a rating of 99.4. He is the only quarterback to have a career passer rating of over 100.0 in the regular season as well as having the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history at 4.13 touchdowns per interception. He also holds the league's lowest career passing interception percentage for quarterbacks during the regular season at 1.6 percent and the single-season passer rating record of 122.5.
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