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The story on Aaron Rodgers and the Bears, an all-time epic in football’s library, was written and finished late in 2022 when he walked out of Soldier Field as a Packer for the last time. Anything after that would be merely an epilogue, especially in a Steelers uniform.
Everyone would still want to read it, nonetheless, and Rodgers making one last stand on the lakefront Sunday, even in his diminished state, would be compelling drama. The drama before the drama is whether he’ll be able to play, and that decision could drag out until shortly before kickoff.