Former Cal Football Player Named AP NFL Most Valuable Player

Submitted by Cal Athletics:

Former Cal football quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been named the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player for the 2014 season. The announcement was made Saturday night during the NFL Honors television broadcast on NBC. The MVP selection for the Green Bay Packers’ signal caller was the second of his career as he was also named for the 2011 season. He was also the Super Bowl XLV MVP earlier in the calendar year in 2011.
Earlier in the evening, Rodgers also picked up the Fed Ex Air Player of the Year and was also a finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. Rodgers had previously been selected first-team All-Pro for the second time in his career in 2014 and was selected to the Pro Bowl for the fourth time.

Rodgers completed 341-of-520 passes (65.6%) for 4,381 yards with 38 touchdowns and five interceptions in 2014 for a 112.2 quarterback rating that was second among NFL signal callers and the second best of his 10-year NFL career. He led the Packers to the NFC Championship Game.

Rodgers played at Cal for two seasons from 2013-14 and is the Golden Bears’ all-time leader in pass efficiency (150.3) and also holds the school’s career (1.95%) and single-season (1.43%) records for lowest interception rate. He also completed a school-record 26 consecutive passes over a two-game span during the 2004 campaign. His career 43 touchdown passes and 5,469 passing yards in just over a season and a half as the Bears’ starter rank eighth and 10th in school history, while his 24 touchdown passes in 2004 is tied for fourth on the single-season list. He has two of the top five single-season passer ratings in school history, with his 154.3 mark in 2004 ranking second after a 146.6 showing the previous season that is fifth. Rodgers set a school bowl record with 394 yards passing when he was named the Offensive MVP of the 2003 Insight Bowl and earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors in 2004 when Cal narrowly missed making the Rose Bowl before finishing 10-2 overall and 7-1 in conference play to take second in the Pac-10.

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