Aaron Rodgers is the same age as Brett Favre when he replaced him

Aaron Rodgers is the same age now that Brett Favre was when the Green Bay Packers drafted him to eventually replace the legendary QB.

It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago many of us were watching the 2005 NFL Draft unfold with Aaron Rodgers sitting, waiting, sitting, and then waiting some more.

That waiting lasted until the 24th overall selection when the Green Bay Packers couldn’t let Rodgers last any longer. He was simply too good of a prospect to pass up on, despite having Brett Favre — a former NFL MVP still playing at a high level — on the roster.

Rodgers was competing before the 2005 NFL Draft with Utah’s Alex Smith to be the number one overall player selected, and when he wasn’t the top pick, he took a free fall.

At the time Rodgers was drafted, Favre was 35 years, 6 months old. This was a fascinating note in Albert Breer’s column on SI.com. It’s funny how quickly things can come full circle in the NFL, though this one is not quite full-circle yet since the Packers haven’t drafted a quarterback, but Rodgers is now 35 years, 4 months old.

Rodgers recently signed a mega-contract to become the highest paid player in NFL history with an average of $33.5 million per season. It doesn’t seem he’s in danger of losing his job anytime soon, but is he in danger of the same fate as Favre?

The Packers apparently brought in Drew Lock — the quarterback from Missouri Drew Lock — on an official pre-draft visit.

It could wind up meaning nothing, but the Packers have two first-round picks and no one really knows what they’re going to do with them.

Well this would certainly be a curveball in the 2019 NFL Draft, wouldn’t it?

If Drew Lock gets past the top 10 picks, it will be a bit of a surprise considering the QB situations of the New York Giants and Denver Broncos. Not to mention, the Cincinnati Bengals are a candidate to take a quarterback at pick no. 11 as well.

The Packers are likely doing due diligence here but what if it’s more than that? It would be fascinating if the team employed the exact same strategy 15 years after they took Rodgers in the 2005 NFL Draft with Favre still having 93 games left in him at that point.

After the Packers drafted Rodgers, Favre played another three seasons with the team before getting traded to the New York Jets, stinking it up, retiring and unretiring about 300 times, playing for the Minnesota Vikings, and finally retiring officially at the age of 41.

Rodgers could very well play into his 40s as well, but there’s no telling if all of those years will be spent in Green Bay. I bet if fans had been polled ahead of the 2005 NFL Draft, they would have said there’s no way the Packers would take a QB in the first round.

This year it probably feels the same way, but the Packers are going to make an educated decision with a new head coach whose expertise is offense/quarterbacks.