Baltimore Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy has 55.5 sacks on his profession and is contemporary off a career-best marketing campaign through which he tallied 12.5 sacks and reached his first Professional Bowl. None of these hits on the quarterback, nevertheless, have come in opposition to Aaron Rodgers. Van Noy mentioned he desires to alter that, now that he and the four-time MVP are divisional rivals as soon as once more.
Rodgers signed this month with the Pittsburgh Steelers, which suggests Van Noy can have two alternatives in 2025 to get revenge for a play that also haunts him a decade later. It was throughout his stint with the Detroit Lions that Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, burned his protection for a landing and left a bitter style in Van Noy’s mouth.
“I would prefer to get him again,” Van Noy said on NFL Network. “For no matter cause, the D-coordinator [Teryl Austin], who’s really the D-coordinator of the Steelers, needed to go Cowl 0 all recreation in opposition to Aaron Rodgers. He caught us. We’re like, ‘Oh, we gotta run it.’ Ended up scoring a landing to Jordy Nelson. He ended up strolling by and sort of tapped me on my butt, like, ‘Good strive.’ So I gotta get him again for that. That is been there for 10 years.”
Van Noy averaged one sack per begin in his most up-to-date marketing campaign. If he stays on that tempo, the perfect of his profession, he ought to be attributable to take Rodgers to the bottom no less than as soon as this fall.
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Rodgers took 40 sacks final season with the New York Jets, probably the most since 2018 and fourth-most in a single 12 months of his profession, which dates again to 2005. His offensive line in Pittsburgh may not be any better than the one which blocked for him on the Meadowlands.
“I nonetheless really feel like he is slinging the ball round,” mentioned Van Noy. “He has the arrogance of anyone, and particularly being a four-time MVP of the league. He is coming into the Steelers, who’re prepared and primed to have a man on the helm, on the quarterback place, to take them to the place they need to go. I really feel like they’ve a superb offensive coordinator with Arthur Smith, who’s gonna get again to that floor and pound. I am excited to see Aaron Rodgers beneath heart to see if he likes it or not.”
Different AFC North defenders have their sights set on the Steelers quarterback, too. Former NFL Defensive Participant of the Yr Myles Garrett mentioned after Rodgers’ arrival within the division that this season is a “good alternative to place him within the graveyard,” referencing the Halloween decoration he places in his front yard every year. That ornament included headstones for lots of the quarterbacks he sacked in his profession.