Even at 41, Aaron Rodgers can still make throws few NFL quarterbacks only dream of. Rodgers didn’t play a great game against the Seattle Seahawks, far from it, but a first-drive throw showed how live his arm still is. His best play of the day ended in an incompletion negated by penalty.
On Pittsburgh’s initial third down on its opening possession, Rodgers was flushed to his right. Extending the play in a true scramble drill, he fired far downfield for TE Pat Freiermuth, breaking his route vertically as part of scramble drill rules (short routes go long). Without any base to step into the throw, Rodgers flung the ball perfectly down the right side into Freiermuth’s hands.