GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aaron Rodgers has been an Allen Lazard fan from the beginning.
He loves to retell the story from Lazard’s first training camp with the Green Bay Packers in 2019. It was Matt LaFleur’s first season as coach, and in order to maximize practice reps, he occasionally split the team into two groups: the starters and top backups (called the green group) at one end of the field, and the bottom-of-the-roster players (the gold group) at the other end.
When Rodgers would look toward the other end of the field, he'd see a relatively unknown receiver make play after play.