NFL MVP stock watch, Week 5: Russell Wilson, Josh Allen say hello
By Dustin Baker
3. Aaron Rodgers, QB (Green Bay Packers)
Last Week’s Ranking: 4th (+1)
Highest Ranking of Season: 2nd (-1)
2020 Stats: 1,214 Passing Yards, 13 Passing TDs, 0 INTs, 70.5% Comp, 128.4 Passer Rating
If you felt the Atlanta Falcons were going to travel to Wisconsin with a chip on their shoulders for remedying stunning upsets, you vastly overestimated the Dirty Birds.
The Falcons have been ravaged by injury, and those deficiencies were on full display versus the Packers in Week 4, especially defensively. For almost a month now, we’ve been getting dangerously close to the proclamation that 2014 Aaron Rodgers has returned. He is, of course, aided by a terrific running back in Aaron Jones.
Yet, the game against the Falcons was largely a vintage Rodgers affair. He disemboweled the hampered Falcons secondary. So much so that these Green Bay Packers now look like the team best suited to do battle with the Kansas City Chiefs in Feburary.
What’s more, this is all after the hubbub about Rodgers not having enough weaponry at his disposal. Sure, it was wholly bizarre that the team spent precious draft capital on a replacement quarterback. Yes, it’s incredible that Rodgers diced up Atlanta without Davante Adams and Allen Lazard.
Right now, though, it doesn’t seem to matter what playmakers Rodgers has around him — he, at age 37, is the damn playmaker.