Welcome back to our series on the greatest Green Bay Packers players to wear every jersey number from No. 0 to No. 99.
Now, there's no need to build any suspense here, as everyone knows this slot belongs to Aaron Rodgers. But before we dive in, let's still take a look at every player who's worn the number in Titletown over the years.
- George Abramson, OL
- Frank Baker, E
- Zeke Bratkowski, QB
- Jim Del Gaizo, QB
- Lynn Dickey, QB
- Brian Dowling, QB
- Ed Glick, B
- John Hadl, QB
- Tom Hearden, B
- Arnie Herber, B
- Don Milan, QB
- Bob Monnett, HB
- Wally Niemann, C
- Aaron Rodgers, QB
- Rudy Rosatti, OT
- T.J. Rubley, QB
- Dave Zuidmulder, TB
Before we move on, we absolutely must make mention of a couple of the other quarterbacks on this list.
First, there's Arnie Herber, who only wore No. 12 for the first of his 11 seasons in Green Bay but had one of the greatest overall careers in franchise history, winning four championships, earning three All-Pro selections, and leading the league three times each in passing yards, touchdown passes, and passer rating.
And then there's Lynn Dickey, who would be the winner here if not for Rodgers. While Dickey wore No. 10 for the first few years of his career, he had his best years in No. 12, including his incredible 1983 campaign in which he threw for 4,458 yards and 32 touchdowns, both of which were franchise records at the time. But just as we couldn't give him No. 10, we obviously can't give him No. 12 either.
Aaron Rodgers won four NFL MVPs and a Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers
Taken in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft at No. 24 overall, Rodgers was hoping to wear No. 8, which he wore in college at Cal-Berkeley, but veteran kicker Ryan Longwell wanted a hefty sum to give it up, which Rodgers wasn't willing to play. As such, he took No. 12, which he wore in high school.
The California native famously sat for three years behind Brett Favre, whose full retirement saga we won't get into here, but when No. 4 was traded to the New York Jets ahead of the 2008 season, Rodgers got his chance to shine, and it didn't take him long to become one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL.
In 2009, he earned the first of his 10 trips to the Pro Bowl. In 2010, he led the Packers to their fourth Super Bowl win in franchise history, ironically defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers. And in 2011, after throwing for a franchise-record 4,643 yards (which still stands) and a then-franchise-record 45 touchdowns (he set a new mark in 2020 with 48), he earned the first of his four NFL MVPs.
Sadly for Cheeseheads everywhere, while Rodgers took Green Bay to the NFC Championship Game on four occasions in a seven-season span from 2014 to 2020, he never got back to the Super Bowl, as the Packers obviously lost all four of those games. But the fact that he never got himself a second ring doesn't take away from everything he accomplished during his 18-year run with the franchise, which, of course, ended exactly like Favre's run did, as he was traded to the Jets ahead of the 2023 campaign.
In those 18 years, Rodgers completed 65.1 percent of his passes, the best mark of any QB in franchise history with at least 1,500 attempts, threw for 59,055 yards, the second-most behind only Favre's 61,655, and tossed 475 touchdowns, the most in team history. Perhaps most impressively, he only threw 105 interceptions on 7,660 pass attempts, which is simply absurd.
While the Packers have officially retired only six numbers in their 100-plus-year history, expect that number to rise to seven at some point down the line.
Other Green Bay Packers jersey honorees
- No. 0: There's literally only one choice here
- No. 1: Micah Parsons isn't the pick just yet
- No. 2: The Packers' all-time leading scorer
- No. 3: The second player in franchise history to have his jersey retired
- No. 4: There's no introduction needed here
- No. 5: This player should have been the last to wear the number but wasn't
- No. 6: A genuine ironman
- No. 7: This player was straight magic (until he wasn't)
- No. 8: This player has the second-most points in Packers history
- No. 9: The winner here has an extremely famous relative
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