Last year, the Green Bay Packers went 4-1 to open the season and Aaron Rodgers was doing the usual Rodgers things. With five games in the books, he’d thrown 13 touchdown passes and only three interceptions, completing 66.7 percent of his attempts. The Packers were averaging 27.4 points per week. Rodgers had just engineered a thrilling comeback win at Dallas. He was an early MVP favorite and Green Bay was very much in the Super Bowl conversation.
And then the Barr play happened. Rodgers suffered a broken collarbone, altering the landscape in the NFC.