"Stop talking about me": Aaron Rodgers takes aim at former Packers teammates, Shailene Woodley, and Danica Patrick

A aron Rodgers has made it clear that he has little interest in allowing old stories about his career and relationships to be rewritten without offering his own version.

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback used a recent appearance on teammate Cam Heyward's "Not Just Football" podcast to address former Green Bay Packers teammates, former partners Danica Patrick and Shailene Woodley , and the public narratives that have followed him for years.

The second part of the conversation was released on September 10, with Rodgers discussing his "last rodeo" and reflecting on several controversial chapters of his life.

Rodgers , now 42, did not identify two former Packers teammates by name when discussing players who had previously criticized him. However, the descriptions strongly point toward former Green Bay wide receiver Greg Jennings and tight end Jermichael Finley.

"I had two teammates who spoke out about me years ago, out of everyone I ever played with who said they didn't have a good experience with me," Rodgers said on the Not Just Football podcast.

"One was bitter because he went to another team and never became a player again. The other just wasn't a smart person. And that one hurt more, because I spent so much time with him.

"The night before games, I'd be in his room for an hour going over the plan, the checks, everything I was going to do. I went above and beyond for that guy.

"Both of them, no one cares about what they have to say, which is for most people at this point in my life. No one cares what they have to say until they use my name."

Jennings has been publicly critical of Rodgers on several occasions since leaving Green Bay for Minnesota in 2013. Most recently, he questioned Rodgers' decision to publicly call out Steelers wide receiver Roman Wilson for a mistake during practice.

"I've never liked this. He's not doing this to DK [Metcalf]. He's not doing this to Davante Adams," Jennings said last week on Fox Sports' First Things First.

"You don't take something that we can resolve, and I get it, he talked glowingly about Roman… But Roman is listening to that, and immediately, when you hear "that's the second time," it's like a reprimand of like, we didn't even need to know about the first time.

"This has been the issue that I've always had. When we look at Rodgers, it's like, do you ever do anything wrong?"

Finley, meanwhile, criticized Rodgers after Green Bay's disastrous opening game of the 2021 season, when the Packers lost 38-3 to the New Orleans Saints despite Rodgers entering the campaign as the reigning MVP.

"Each offseason you've got to work like it's your last season," the former tight end said on ESPN. "And, I just don't see a work ethic in Aaron Rodgers that I have in previous years."

Rodgers responded to that criticism by producing another MVP-caliber season, ultimately winning the award for the fourth time in his career.

Rodgers turns his attention to his former relationships

The quarterback's comments became even more personal when the conversation shifted from football to his romantic history.

Rodgers dated Patrick , the former NASCAR driver, from 2018 until 2020 before entering a relationship with actress Woodley. He and Woodley became engaged in 2021, but the relationship ended in 2022.

Rodgers offered his own explanation for why both relationships ultimately broke down. Regarding Patrick, he said there was "zero intimacy" and claimed their relationship deteriorated after he did not want to purchase another property with her following their 2019 Malibu home.

He also pushed back against public criticism of his conduct during the relationship, saying Patrick's account of their time together did not reflect his own experience.

Patrick had previously described Rodgers as emotionally abusive in a 2025 interview, while Rodgers has now presented a substantially different account of the relationship.

The Woodley relationship produced another round of revelations. Rodgers claimed their engagement began to unravel shortly after he proposed and alleged that Woodley expressed an interest in being with another man before they married.

He also disputed suggestions that he was responsible for the actress experiencing emotional difficulties following their breakup.

" No one cares what they have to say until they say my name," he said. "I dated two women who nobody gives a f*** about unless they drop my name, and they like to say their version of the history of what actually happened.

"So I'm this monster of a partner and it's just f***ing horses***. Number one: Why are you still talking about me? It's been years."

Rodgers ' remarks have already generated significant reaction, particularly because Woodley has largely kept her distance from the public discussion surrounding their breakup in recent years. People reported that Rodgers' comments focused heavily on his disagreement with how his former relationships have been portrayed.

The timing is notable as Rodgers prepares for what ESPN describes as his 22nd NFL season and his "last rodeo." He returned to Pittsburgh on a one-year contract after starting 16 games for the Steelers in 2025, throwing for 3,322 yards, 24 touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Rodgers therefore enters the new campaign with his attention ostensibly focused on football, but his latest podcast appearance has once again placed his personal history firmly in the spotlight.

"If you're only relevant by mentioning my name, you should check yourself," Rodgers told Heyward.

For a quarterback who has repeatedly insisted that he wants to control his own narrative, the message was unmistakable: he believes his former teammates and ex-partners should stop revisiting their histories with him, even as he continues to publicly offer his own version of what happened.