Report: Aaron Rodgers a top choice as Vice President candidate for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers — who 64 days ago said the franchise needs to purge “anything in this building that we’re doing individually or collectively that has nothing to do with real winning” — is reportedly in contention to be a candidate for Vice President of the United States, according to the New York Times.

Rodgers is apparently a potential choice as the running mate for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Along with Rodgers, the campaign is reportedly also vetting former Minnesota governor, Navy SEAL and WWE wrestler Jesse Ventura.

Both Rodgers and Ventura have been receptive to the overtures. Kennedy and Rodgers have been speaking “pretty continuously” for the last month, according to the Times.

Rodgers, who tore his Achilles tendon four plays into his New York Jets tenure last September, is in line to be the Jets starting quarterback this upcoming season. It will be the second season of a two year, $75 million deal that Rodgers inked with the Jets after the franchise traded multiple draft picks to the Green Bay Packers for the quarterback prior to the 2023 season.

Kennedy initially tried to run as a Democrat and a primary challenger to incumbent Joe Biden, but was generally rejected by the party and its electorate, and opted to change and run as an independent in October 2023. He and Rodgers shared political common ground on one issue: Vaccine skepticism.

That belief was amplified, in Rodgers’ case, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rodgers infamously said he was “immunized” and seemed to have skirted some amount of NFL protective protocol for unvaccinated players, which he was at the time. Rodgers has since struck out to cast himself as open-minded, unorthodox and intellectual. He piqued interest with his darkness retreat and sharing that he’s used ayahuasca in the past, and also sparked outrage with his comments linking late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to alleged sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on the Pat McAfee Show.

Rodgers made those comments about Kimmel days before he stood before a collection of reporters and explained how exit interviews were a chance for the Jets to “flush the bulls***” after a season that fell flat.

“If you want to be a winning organization and put yourself in position to win championships and be competitive, everything that you do matters. And the bulls*** that has nothing to do with winning needs to get out of the building. So that’ll be the focus moving forward,” Rodgers said then, in early January.