Aaron Rodgers Explains Why Deion Sanders Has Made Him a ‘Colorado Fan’

The ex-California quarterback has seemingly picked up another allegiance.

It may seem hard for many to remember, but Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was once a top college football player. The New York gunslinger was one of California's best-ever players at any position, finishing ninth in the Heisman voting as the Golden Bears went 10–2 in 2004.

Fast forward 19 years later, and Rodgers—like many Americans—has picked up a secondary allegiance in 2023: Colorado. On Friday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show, the future Hall of Famer endorsed Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders’s leadership in steering Colorado to a 2–0 start in his first season in Boulder, a year after a 1–11 season.

“I’m a Colorado fan. I’m a fan of what Deion’s doing,” Rodgers told McAfee to cheers from the crowd assembled in Boulder. “If there’s a lot of crows pecking and a lot of people s— talking, you must be doing something right. He shut up the team that was in the national championship [TCU] in week one, and then somebody said something in week two and he shut [Nebraska] up, and somebody said something in week three, and they're about to shut them up, too."

“If there’s a lot of crows pecking and a lot of people s**t talking, you must be doing something right.”

Aaron Rodgers riding with Coach Prime and Colorado 😎

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— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) September 15, 2023

Rodgers—laid up after tearing his Achilles tendon Monday in the Jets’ 22–16 overtime win over the Bills—was alluding to Colorado State coach Jay Norvell’s comments about Sanders on his radio show earlier this week, in which the Rams coach said, “When I talk to grown-ups, I take my hat and my glasses off, that’s what my mother taught me.”

Colorado State will visit the No. 18 Buffaloes in the two teams’ 92nd meeting—and first since 2003 in which either team is ranked—on Saturday night.