Green Bay — The question, "What ever happened to Richard Rodgers?" may not be fully answered yet, but as far as the Green Bay Packers are concerned it's secondary to "What will he do next?"
One game does not make an entire season and to say the second-year tight end's big game against the Detroit Lions last Thursday night — eight catches for 146 yards and a touchdown — signals some kind of dawning would be to ignore the 6.0 yards per reception he averaged in the previous five games.
But mired in a terrible offensive slump, the Packers have to grasp onto something, and in the case of Rodgers it is more than just his confident pluck of quarterback Aaron Rodgers' Hail Mary at the end of the 27-23 victory over the Lions.