No quarterback in the history of the NFL has been better at the combination of throwing touchdowns and avoiding interceptions than Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.
In fact, it’s not even remotely close.
Rodgers threw three more touchdown passes Sunday in Chicago, giving him 229 for his career. Meanwhile, his 63rd start without an interception kept him at just 57 career picks. (Yes, it’s absolutely bonkers that Rodgers has more starts without throwing a pick than he does career interceptions.)
As Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk pointed out, Rodgers now has a career touchdown-to-interception ratio of over 4:1. And that’s significant, as no other quarterback in NFL history is above a 3:1 mark.
Rodgers remains the rarest of quarterbacks; he’s both a touchdown machine and an interception avoider. Other greats—such as Peyton Manning and Brett Favre—have piled up touchdowns and still thrown plenty of interceptions—a trade off most quarterbacks can handle playing this ridiculously difficult game.
Rodgers is wired differently. Nothing torments his soul quite like throwing the ball to the other team. He’s also been trained in an environment in Green Bay that stresses ball security.
“I can tell you that when their quarterbacks throw interceptions, every one of them is gone over so thoroughly it’s like a crime scene investigation,” former NFL quarterback Rich Gannon told MMQB.
Rodgers hasn’t provided many CSI opportunities over the years. In fact, he hasn’t thrown a home interception since 2012. Over the last five seasons alone, Rodgers has 142 touchdown passes against just 25 interceptions.
The football math always seems to work in Rodgers’ favor.