Aaron Rodgers: NFL star’s history of controversies and conspiracies

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been rumoured to be a potential candidate as Robert F Kennedy Jr’s potential running mate for his independent presidential campaign.

Last week, Mr Kennedy Jr told The New York Times he is eyeing former professional wrestler and governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura or Mr Rodgers as his future vice presidential pick.

He told the paper he was speaking to Mr Rodgers “pretty continuously” and had been in touch with Mr Ventura since being introduced by him at an event in Arizona last month.

Although Mr Kennedy Jr is reportedly also considering other options his announcement has put the New York Jets player back in the spotlight, with many labelling him a conspiracy theorist and an anti-vaxxer.

Aaron Rodgers, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Jesse Ventura

Over the years, Mr Rodgers has had his fair share of controversies, including a public feud with Jimmy Kimmel and he has also been accused of pushing various conspiracy theories related to the Sandy Hook school shooting, 9/11 and the Covid-19 vaccine.

Here is a complete list of all the controversies and conspiracies involving Aaron Rodgers:

Mr Rodger’s estrangement from his family has been the subject of much media attention. He allegedly stopped talking to his family a few months after he began dating Olivia Munn in 2014, according to his father, Ed Rodgers.

“Fame can change things,” he told The New York Times in 2017.

In 2018, a year after the pair split, Ms Munn denied that she was to blame for the feud, claiming that Mr Rodgers had not spoken to his family for eight months before they started dating.

This came after rumours of a family feud emerged in 2016 when Mr Rodger’s brother Jordan Rodgers told future wife JoJo Fletcher that he and