Growing up as the younger brother of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers could have been a blessing or a burden for Jordan Rodgers, the redshirt junior quarterback at Vanderbilt.
He chose the blessing.
“We grew up like all brothers do, playing every kind of sport in the front yard and being competitive in everything we do,” Jordan said this week. “With me aspiring to be a quarterback and him kind of laying the groundwork in high school and college, I always had an older brother to look up to and get advice from. What he’s doing in the NFL is what I aspire to, so the more I can soak up the more it can help me.
“I am extremely proud of him.”
And the feeling is more than mutual.