These are the best passes of Aaron Rodgers' career with the Green Bay Packers

When you picture Aaron Rodgers in a Green Bay Packers uniform, which pass jumps to mind? Is it a throw in the Super Bowl? Is it a Hail Mary? Is it a dagger against the Chicago Bears? These are the best passes in Aaron Rodgers' career, including 10 that resulted in a touchdown and the five best that didn't.

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Best touchdown passes

1. Greg Jennings (2010 season in Super Bowl XLV vs. Pittsburgh, 21 yards)

Coming right after a Jarrett Bush interception and with a snap on the 21-yard line, Greg Jennings ran up the seam against Pittsburgh linebacker James Farrior, and Rodgers stepped up for a pass that barely eluded the outstretched hand of safety Ryan Clark and into the arms of Jennings, who absorbed a Troy Polamalu hit but got up in time to put an invisible ring on his index finger. The Packers had just taken a 21-3 lead in the Super Bowl en route to a championship.

2. Jeff Janis (2015 season in divisional round vs. Arizona, 41 yards)

Hail Marys are part of the Aaron Rodgers story, and even if you note that completing them requires a dose of luck, they're too iconic to ignore in the Rodgers canon. Rodgers was somehow able keep the Packers alive in the final moments of the divisional round, finding Jeff Janis on fourth-and-20 for a 60-yard completion that registered a first down with 30 seconds left. That set up the quick sequel, both in terms of great throws and in Hail Marys — Rodgers had completed a famous one against Detroit earlier that year.

Feeling immediate pressure, Rodgers spun around and rolled left, and he was 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage by the time he threw the ball with an Arizona defender in his face. Janis out-jumped a pair of defensive backs with double zeroes on the clock. The Packers forced overtime before the story took a turn for the worse; Larry Fitzgerald's 75-yard catch and run set up a game-winning touchdown to eliminate the Packers.

3. Richard Rodgers (2015 in Week 13 vs. Detroit, 61 yards)

You've seen this one replayed hundreds of times (and so have Lions fans). It's a play that wouldn't have happened at all had Detroit not been flagged for a facemask on the lateral-heavy final snap of regulation, giving Green Bay an untimed down. Rodgers started to move to his left, got cut off by two Lions and reversed course.

Finding himself in the clear, he got his momentum going forward and sent a pass from Green Bay's 35-yard line, nearly scraping the rafters at Ford Field. The throw landed in Richard Rodgers’ mitts right in front of a gaggle of defenders in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. Green Bay had rallied from a 20-0 deficit late in the third quarter.

4. Randall Cobb (2013 season in Week 17 at Chicago, 48 yards)

It was a de facto playoff game, a winner-take-all battle between the Bears and Packers for the NFC North title in the final game of the season. The Packers, lucky to even be in this position after Rodgers was lost to a collarbone injury for much of the year, faced a fourth-and-8 from Chicago’s 48-yard line, trailing 28-27 with 46 seconds left in regulation.

A key block from John Kuhn against Julius Peppers helped Rodgers buy just enough time to his left to spot Randall Cobb streaking past defensive back Chris Conte. From there, it was pitch-and-catch for the go-ahead touchdown to send the Packers to the postseason and eliminate the Bears.

5. Jamaal Williams (2019 in Week 8 vs. Kansas City, 3 yards)

Tied at 17 against the powerful Chiefs early in the fourth quarter, Rodgers somehow found running back Jamaal Williams in the back of the end zone for a preposterous score on Sunday Night Football. Rodgers held the ball from the 17-yard line as two Chiefs rushers descended, but Rodgers was able to get off a back-foot pass at the last second before they converged.

NBC announcer Al Michaels at first didn't know what to make of the play as Williams came down with a diving snare in the back corner of the end zone.

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6. Davante Adams (2016 in Week 1 vs. Jacksonville, 29 yards)

Davante Adams surely belongs on the list somewhere, and the season opener against Jacksonville may not immediately come to mind. But with Jalen Ramsey dragging Rodgers down from behind, the quarterback flipped a ball downfield to Adams, who reeled it in despite a defender draped all over him. What it lacks in stakes it makes up for with improbability.

7. Richard Rodgers (2014 season in divisional round vs. Dallas, 13 yards)

The Packers trailed Dallas, 21-20, with 9:17 left in the fourth quarter and the ball at Dallas' 13-yard line, where it was first-and-10. Aaron Rodgers, playing with a strain and a partial tear in his calf, felt the pocket start to collapse and stepped up, brushing off a one-armed grasp by a Dallas rusher.

It was just enough time to zip a pass to Richard Rodgers in a tight window between a pair of criss-crossing defenders near the back of the end zone, 26 yards away. The throw served as the eventual game-winner in what came to be the game most remembered for Dez Bryant's no-catch.

8. Randall Cobb (2016 in wild-card round vs. New York Giants, 42 yards)

The third in Rodgers' Hail Mary trinity came in the final moments of the first half of a playoff battle at Lambeau Field. Just over 2 minutes after another absurd touchdown pass to Davante Adams, Green Bay had the ball at New York’s 42 with 6 seconds to play. Rodgers rolled a few steps to his right and uncorked a pass toward the end zone. Four Giants were in the area, but it dropped right over their hands to Randall Cobb just in front of the end line to close out the half.

9. Korey Hall (2008 in Week 1 vs. Minnesota, 1 yard)

It was a heck of an introduction to the new starter in Green Bay. For the first time since September 1992, a man other than Brett Favre was starting at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. With just over 10 minutes to play in the second quarter, his first touchdown as the starter came on a third-and-goal pass from the 1.

Rodgers faked a handoff to running back Ryan Grant, who chipped defensive end Jared Allen to the ground. With Allen rolling at his feet and pressure in his face, Rodgers fired a pass from an odd angle to Korey Hall. From the field-level end zone camera angle, it's a play that looks like it has no business working. But, as he would go on to do many times, Rodgers fit the throw in a spot where there was little to no room for error.

10. Geronimo Allison (2016 season in Week 17 vs. Detroit, 10 yards)

This was a win-and-in battle to close the season as the Packers sought a playoff spot in their "run the table" finish to the season of six straight wins.

With nothing initially open, Rodgers rolled out to his left, juked an oncoming rusher to generate an eternity of time to throw and then released a low dart toward the back of the end zone for Geronimo Allison. A linebacker was blanketing Allison on the play, but the rookie receiver had a chance to hit the turf and snag the ball on Sunday Night Football. It gave the Packers a 23-14 lead en route to a 31-24 victory.

We should also mention: The 2013 touchdown pass to Randall Cobb against the Bears that got the Packers into the playoffs, the pretty touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson to open the scoring in Super Bowl XLV, a surgeon-like strike to Davante Adams in the 2016 playoff game against the Giants, the game-winning touchdown that went for 75 yards to Randall Cobb in the 2018 opener against the Bears.

Best non-touchdown passes

1. Jared Cook (2016 season in divisional round at Dallas, 36 yards)

It's awfully hard to top the combination of skill and stakes. On third-and-20 from the Packers' own 32 yard line, Rodgers rolled out of the pocket and found tight end Jared Cook for a 36-yard completion along the sideline, with Cook's feet tapping the ground in bounds before falling to the sideline to stop the clock with 3 seconds left. Mason Crosby drilled a game-winning field goal from there, and the Packers knocked off the top-seeded Cowboys in the divisional round, 34-31.

2. Greg Jennings (2010 season in Super Bowl vs. Pittsburgh, 31 yards)

On third-and-10 with the Packers nursing a 28-25 lead and 6 minutes to go in Super Bowl XLV, Rodgers took a snap from the Green Bay 25 and fired a flawless strike over the middle to Greg Jennings, who picked up 31 yards before being brought down by Hall of Fame safety Troy Polamalu. The Packers capped the drive with a field goal and chewed the clock down to 2:10 en route to a 31-25 victory.

3. Jeff Janis (2015 season in divisional round at Arizona, 60 yards)

All hope looked lost when Rodgers took a fourth-and-20 snap in the final minute close to his own end zone, and he immediately rolled left to elude Calais Campbell, who chased him back to the goal line, where Rodgers set and uncorked a pass down the sideline for the speedy Jeff Janis. Janis had a step on Justin Bethel and hauled it in, setting the stage for a Hail Mary touchdown to tie the game on the final snap.

4. Jordy Nelson (2016 season in Week 15 at Chicago, 60 yards)

Facing third-and-11 in a game tied at 27-all, the Packers desperately needed to generate some late magic in a must-win at Soldier Field. Rodgers took the snap at his own 26 with 36 seconds on the clock, then heaved up a rainbow down the middle that fell right into Jody Nelson's breadbasket 60 yards downfield against defensive back Cre'von LeBlanc. The Packers raced downfield to spike the football with 3 seconds left, and Mason Crosby kicked the game-winner. Green Bay won, 30-27, all part of the six-game "run the table" winning streak to finish the year.

5. Davante Adams (2014 in Week 4 vs. Chicago, 34 yards but technically zero)

It didn't officially count, but it should have based on ridiculousness alone. Rodgers darted in and out of Bears rushers at Soldier Field, and just as his feet were taken out from under him on a hit by Lamarr Houston, Rodgers found Davante Adams in the end zone eluding double coverage. It didn't count because of a holding call on Corey Linsley, but it's a miraculous would-have-been touchdown.

The Packers were ahead at the time in the third quarter, 21-17. Mason Crosby capped the drive with a field goal instead, and Green Bay went on to win, 38-17.

What else makes your list? JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.

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