Going into 2025, the Green Bay Packers will have a lot more answers than questions throughout their roster. While they have come up short in the playoffs, winning 20 regular season games and making the playoffs in the two season after moving on from Aaron Rodgers is no small feat.
Now, Green Bay could be looking at bringing in a different Rodgers for 2025.
Packers Officially Meet With Different “Rodgers” For Super Bowl Run In 2025 (Report)
The first report of a potential defensive line coach arrived on Tuesday, and the candidate brings a wide range of experience to the position. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports that Kacy Rodgers will interview with the Packers today:
According to Rapoport, Rodgers’ contract has expired and he is expected to have a strong market for his services. It is intriguing to note that he is interviewing outside the Buccaneers organization, as that would have him working for someone other than Todd Bowles for the first time in a decade.
At the start of Bowles’ first head coaching tenure — when he coached the New York Jets from 2015 to 2018 — he hired Rodgers to be his defensive coordinator. After the Jets let Bowles go in early 2019, Rodgers then followed him to Tampa Bay. In Tampa, Rodgers served as defensive line coach when Bowles was defensive coordinator under Bruce Arians, then added run game coordinator duties in 2022 when Bowles took over the head coaching role.
The Buccaneers have had an excellent defensive front throughout Rodgers’ tenure with the team, as he has helped develop players like Vita Vea and Calijah Kancey into high-caliber players. Tampa Bay also allowed less than four yards per carry on average in three of Rodgers’ six years with the team. Additionally, he was instrumental in helping Leonard Williams, the Jets’ 6th overall draft pick in 2015, become a major playmaker and a Pro Bowler in his second season.
Prior to his hiring with the Jets, Rodgers spent 12 years as an NFL defensive line coach, working for both the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. In total, he has 22 years of NFL coaching experience, all of it spent working with defensive lines.
With the exception of longtime quarterbacks coach Tom Clements, who is retiring this offseason, that type of experience is something that the Packers have rarely had in position coach roles under LaFleur.
Through Rodgers’ tenure with the Buccaneers, the defense has been excellent, with players like Vita Vea and Calijah Kancey being developed into high-caliber players. Rodgers’ Tampa Bay teams also allowed less than four yards per carry on average in three of his six years with the team.
Additionally, he played a key role in helping Leonard Williams grow into a Playmaker and Pro Bowler as the Jets’ 6th overall draft pick in 2015.
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