GREEN BAY, Wis. — On Friday night, Aaron Rodgers was socializing with left tackle David Bakhtiari and receiver Randall Cobb when a former teammate entered the conversation.
The three Green Bay Packers started discussing retired outside linebacker Clay Matthews. The conversation turned into a FaceTime chat with Matthews, which invariably turned into an inside joke. In an Instagram post, the three friends each beckoned Matthews to return to the Packers.
Rodgers smiled when asked if he might be asking general manager Brian Gutekunst to sign Matthews, the way he did for Cobb.
“There hasn’t been, I don’t think, a big push from any of us to sign him,” Rodgers said.