Ranking The Top-10 Games Of Aaron Rodgers’ Green Bay Packers Career

Aaron Rodgers played 18 years in Green Bay and was the starter for 15 of those seasons.

Rodgers led the Packers to a Super Bowl championship in 2010, won four MVPs and guided Green Bay to four other NFC Conference title games (all losses).

Rodgers, now a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, faces the Packers Sunday at 7:20 p.m.

Here’s one ranking of Rodgers’ top-10 games as a Packer.

1. Super Bowl XLV

Green Bay 31, Pittsburgh 25

Rodgers’ passer rating of 111.5 was the fourth-highest in Super Bowl history, at the time. His 304 passing yards might have been 450 if it wasn’t for a bevy of drops.

Rodgers also threw three touchdown passes, didn’t have an interception or fumble, and was an easy choice for MVP.

“He made plays,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said of Rodgers. “We knew that they would throw the football quite a bit and they did. He didn’t fold under the pressure.”

2. 2010 NFC Divisional playoffs

Green Bay 48, Atlanta 21

Rodgers, making just his third postseason start, had a game for the ages. Rodgers completed 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards, threw three touchdowns, no interceptions and posted a passer rating of 136.8.

Rodgers set Packer playoff records for completions (31) and completion percentage (86.1%), and had the second most passing yardage in team history (366). In 10 possessions, Rodgers led Green Bay to six touchdowns, two field goals and the Packers never punted.

3. Nov. 9, 2014

Green Bay 55, Chicago 14

Rodgers joined Oakland’s Daryle Lamonica as the only players in NFL history to throw six first half touchdown passes. Rodgers needed just seven possessions — and 36 offensive plays — to notch his accomplishment.

Rodgers went a remarkable 18-of-24 in the first half alone with six TD strikes, 315 passing yards and a nearly perfect quarterback rating of 156.3. By halftime, the Packers led, 42-0, and the NFL’s oldest rivalry had turned into a laughingstock.

“I can promise you this is not easy,” Rodgers said. “It’s not easy to do this every week.

4. Oct. 20, 2019

Green Bay 42, Oakland 24

Rodgers completed 25-of-31 passes for 429 yards and five touchdowns. Rodgers’ passer rating of 158.3 was the best a quarterback can have, and he threw five TD’s for the first time since Sept. 28, 2015 against Kansas City.

Rodgers had plenty of stellar games in a Green Bay uniform. But this was the only one in which he had a perfect passer rating.

“He’s one of the best of all time,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said. “He made a couple of great audibles. He made a couple of great throws. Tough as hell. I mean, we hit him a few times and it didn’t bother him one bit.”

5. NFC Divisional Playoffs

Green Bay 34, Dallas 31

Rodgers’ final stats won’t wow anyone: 28-of-33 for 355 yards, two touchdowns, one interception and a 96.6 passer rating.

But his 36-yard completion to tight end Jared Cook in the final seconds — one that set up a 51-yard game-winning field goal by Mason Crosby — ranks among the best throws of his Green Bay career.

The Packers had a third-and-20 from their own 32-yard line and just 12 seconds left. Rodgers rolled left, held the ball 5.90 seconds which allowed Cook to work right to left, then threw back across his body. Cook hauled in the rocket ball at the Dallas 33, got his feet down millimeters before going out of bounds, the Crosby sent the Packers to the NFC Championship Game with his game-winner.

“He’s a big time player,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said of Rodgers. “One of the things he’s best at is the ability to extend plays.”

6. Dec. 3, 2015

Green Bay 27, Detroit 23

Rodgers and the Packers trailed Detroit, 23-21, with no time left. Green Bay, given an untimed down after a Lions penalty, had one free play from its own 39-yard line.

With the Lions rushing just three, Rodgers started left and then rolled back to his right. He let the ball fly from the Green Bay 36-yard line, and his bomb landed 67 yards downfield in the soft hands of tight end Richard Rodgers, giving the Packers a stunning win.

“I was pretty excited to see Richard jump in there and catch it,” Rodgers said. “You live for days like this, to have a chance at the end — and have something miraculous happen.”

7. Sept. 9, 2018

Green Bay 24, Chicago 23

In the 2018 season opener, Rodgers was carted off the field with a knee injury in the second quarter. Green Bay trailed at the time, 10-0, and it appeared Rodgers was done for the evening — and perhaps longer.

Instead, Rodgers returned on largely one good leg and completed 17-of-23 passes for 273 yards and three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a dramatic win. It tied the largest comeback (20 points) of Rodgers’ NFL career, equaling the 20-0 deficit Green Bay overcame against Detroit in a 2015 contest best known as the “Hail Mary Game.”

8. 2009 Wildcard Game

Arizona 51, Green Bay 45

Rodgers set a Packers’ postseason record with 423 passing yards, threw four touchdowns and ran for one.

Unfortunately for Rodgers and the Packers, the game ended when Rodgers held the ball too long and was stripped by Arizona’s Michael Adams. Karlos Dansby recovered the fumble and went 17 yards for a touchdown that gave the Cardinals a victory in the highest-scoring postseason game in NFL history.

9. Sept. 28, 2014

Green Bay 38, Chicago 17

Rodgers was the ultimate ‘Bear Killer’ and this was one of his top performances against Chicago.

With the Packers off to a 1-2 start, Rodgers told Packer Nation to “R-E-L-A-X.” Then he completed 22-of-28 passes for 302 yards and four touchdowns in leading Green Bay to a critical win.

Rodgers’ final passer rating of 151.2 was the fourth-highest in franchise history and he averaged a remarkable 10.79 passing yards per attempt.

“I had a feeling he was going to go off this week,” Packers guard Josh Sitton said. “He’s a little bit salty when we don’t play well and he takes it out on the next team.”

10. Nov. 30, 2014

Green Bay 26, New England 21

Rodgers had bigger statistical games than here, when he threw for 368 yards, two touchdowns and had a passer rating of 112.6. But this ranked among his most memorable regular season wins, as he slayed Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the mighty Patriots in one of the more exciting games of the Rodgers-era.

Rodgers did throw for 282 first half yards. And he stretched his NFL-record streak to 360 consecutive passing attempts without an interception at home.

“This was awesome,” defensive end Mike Daniels said. “I mean, that’s a Hall of Fame quarterback (Brady) over there. The offensive guys did a heck of a job and we just did what we had to do on our side of the ball to ensure the win.”