Video: Rare footage of Aaron Rodgers playing quarterback in high school
October 29, 2015 by MaxPreps, AZPreps365
{EMBED_VIDEO_4895913f-c569-49bf-90d3-1a481f6467a0}By now most football fans know the story well — NFL star quarterback Aaron Rodgers was not heavily recruited while playing at Pleasant Valley High School (Chico, Calif.). In fact, he was barely recruited at all.
It wasn't until a chance encounter with then-Cal head coach Jeff Tedford that Rodgers was discovered and offered a Division I scholarship while in his first year playing football at Butte Community College in Oroville, Calif.
And, as they say, the rest is history.
Rodgers is now known as one of the elite players in the NFL, having led the Green Bay Packers to a Super Bowl title at the end of 2010 season.
In his two seasons (2000-2001) as the starting varsity quarterback at Pleasant Valley, Rodgers guided the Vikings to a 17-7 overall record, which included two straight appearances in the CIF Northern Section playoffs — his team lost in the first round both times.
Rodgers, who was 5-foot-10, 165-pounds while playing in high school, became the first Northern Section quarterback to pass for over 2,000 yards in consecutive seasons. He passed for 4,419 yards during his two-year varsity career, including a school-record 2,318 yards in his senior season.
"Rodgers was certainly seen as one of the top quarterbacks the Northern Section had ever produced," former NorthstatePrepUpdate.com publisher and current MaxPreps writer Kevin Askeland said. "But players from the Northern Section don't receive much notice from Division I schools, so it wasn't a surprise that he ended up at Butte College rather than a Division I program out of high school."
View video highlights of Rodgers in action for Pleasant Valley during games against Corning his junior and senior seasons.
It wasn't until a chance encounter with then-Cal head coach Jeff Tedford that Rodgers was discovered and offered a Division I scholarship while in his first year playing football at Butte Community College in Oroville, Calif.
And, as they say, the rest is history.
Rodgers is now known as one of the elite players in the NFL, having led the Green Bay Packers to a Super Bowl title at the end of 2010 season.
In his two seasons (2000-2001) as the starting varsity quarterback at Pleasant Valley, Rodgers guided the Vikings to a 17-7 overall record, which included two straight appearances in the CIF Northern Section playoffs — his team lost in the first round both times.
Rodgers, who was 5-foot-10, 165-pounds while playing in high school, became the first Northern Section quarterback to pass for over 2,000 yards in consecutive seasons. He passed for 4,419 yards during his two-year varsity career, including a school-record 2,318 yards in his senior season.
"Rodgers was certainly seen as one of the top quarterbacks the Northern Section had ever produced," former NorthstatePrepUpdate.com publisher and current MaxPreps writer Kevin Askeland said. "But players from the Northern Section don't receive much notice from Division I schools, so it wasn't a surprise that he ended up at Butte College rather than a Division I program out of high school."
View video highlights of Rodgers in action for Pleasant Valley during games against Corning his junior and senior seasons.
