Aaron Rodgers 2022 Player Outlook – Numbers Should Go Down Without Adams Around
2 years agoFor the second season in a row, Rodgers was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player. He has an ungodly 85-to-9 touchdown-to-interception ratio over the two-year span and has showed no signs of slowing down as he approaches age 40. Rodgers was in the news last year just as much for his vaccine views, love life and contract soap opera than he was for his stellar play. The good news is he remains one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL and in fantasy football. The bad news, and it is BAD, is that Rodgers will be without his favorite go-to guy, Davante Adams, for the first time in eight years. Even worse, the Packers did a poor job of replacing Adams since signing injury-prone Sammy Watkins and drafting Christian Watson in the second round was an underwhelming way of improving their depleted receiver corps. Rodgers' numbers have nowhere to go but down anyway after his past two superb seasons, and it is hard to fathom him being able to give fantasy managers any more than 4,200 passing yards and 30-32 touchdown tosses unless there is a drastic upgrade to his receiver core before the season's start. Do not hold your breath on that given Green Bay's history of adding impact players through the draft and not via free agency. Rodgers is still a QB1 but will not be as dominant as he was during his MVP years.