In the sixth chapter of Out of the Darkness, a new Aaron Rodgers biography that author Ian O’Connor dropped on Tuesday, we’re brought back to April 23rd, 2005, the day that Rodgers became a Green Bay Packer. O’Connor — who says he conducted 250 interviews, including with Rodgers himself — kicked up some new details of Rodgers’ slip from a projected first overall pick to landing with the Packers at 24th overall slot of the 2005 draft.
According to O’Connor, here’s how everything played out:
- Future Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, then the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers, was not “blown away by what he had seen on film” from Rodgers’ college days at Cal.