Fans are blaming Shailene Woodley for Aaron Rodgers vaccine debacle

Sports fans on Twitter discuss whether or not Aaron Rodgers’ fiancee, actress Shailene Woodley, has influenced Rodgers’ perspective on the COVID vaccine. 

When NFL teams or players face problems, it’s not uncommon for fans to do their own sleuthing to determine the real root of the problem.

For some, that means blaming football-related decisions on a player’s family member, like how Patrick Mahomes’ younger brother and fiancee have been repeatedly blamed as the source of the Chiefs’ problems.

Aside from public statements directly from the player, it’s never perfectly clear what personal factors in their lives might influence their decision-making. But when it comes to Aaron Rodgers’ bombshell revelations from his interview with The Pat McAfee Show, everyone seems to think that his fiancee, actress Shailene Woodley, has something to do with it.

Woodley is a passionate environmental activist, aligning herself with Greenpeace to save the world’s oceans and with Indigenous activists to protect water rights in Wisconsin.

As noble as her endeavors to protect the environment may be, Woodley has still been subject to criticism for some of her personal views on health and well-being, such as eating clay and drinking spring water.

Because Woodley apparently “makes her own medicines”, people are not surprised that her fiancee is adamantly refusing the COVID vaccine.

Another bread crumb as to why Rodgers might be unvaccinated? He and Woodley are friends with actor Miles Teller, whose COVId contraction while unvaccinated halted the shoot of  “The Offer”, a Paramount+ show based on “The Godfather.”

Although not everyone blames Woodley for influencing Rodgers’ beliefs, their “jock bf/granola gf” coupling is still a cause for controversy.

As FanSided’s Gabrielle Starr points out, Woodley and Rodgers have now combined to make “the world’s most insufferable, misinformation-spreading couple.”

Whatever Woodley’s own personal views are, others reiterate that Rodgers is more than capable of making health decisions for himself, regardless of who his partner is and what she believes.

While Woodley’s activism has certainly inspired Rodgers to care for the environment, such as urging President Biden to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, the downside is that she may have potentially influenced an aversion to institutionalized medicine, which would include the COVID vaccine.