Shortly after the Packers had won Super Bowl XLV in 2011, Ted Thompson was raving about the future of star quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Thompson, who was Green Bay’s general manager at the time, had drafted Rodgers as the heir apparent to Brett Favre. After sitting for three years, Rodgers got his chance and guided Green Bay past the Steelers for a championship.
“I think people are going to write stories about him 10 years from now that he’s pretty special,” Thompson told ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill. “Even though he’s done so much, he’s sort of just getting started.