Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, has not yet made a decision about his future, but does not want to take too much time out of respect for the franchise and his teammates.

Green Bay/Munich – Aaron Rodgers has announced that he will decide on a possible continuation of his career in the near future. “Do I still have the passion mentally, the competitiveness and the desire to keep playing? I think it’s a feeling, and you know best when the offseason has started,” he said on “The Pat McAfee Show.”

Rodgers expects the decision to come “before rather than after” the start of free agency in March. He said he also wants to take into account that the Green Bay Packers and players have other personnel decisions to make that may be related to Rodgers’ future.

Rodgers praises career endings of Peyton Manning and John Elway

“I think there should be enough time to make a decision before then,” the 38-year-old said. “I don’t want to commit to a specific date, but I want to be sensitive to Davante (Adams, his contract is up, ed.) and a lot of other guys who have to make decisions about their own futures. To drag that out beyond Free Agency would be disrespectful to the organisation and those guys. That’s 100 per cent not going to happen.”

According to Rodgers, not many players have managed to end their careers at an appropriate time: “Peyton Manning did, and John Elway did. But not many people have been able to do it. It depends on how you feel. Can you still play, can you still have the same commitment and enjoyment of the game, do you want to sign up for the grind again?”

He would have definitely thought about how his career could end on a good note: “If you’re a total competitive guy, you think about how the fairy tale could end. That doesn’t necessarily mean the Super Bowl, but that would be a hell of a fairy tale. “

Rodgers not afraid of retirement

Should he end his career, that move would be final, anyway. “One thing I wouldn’t do is retire and then come back a year later,” Rodgers said. The playmaker continued to call Green Bay a good place to be and praised the friendly relationship with general manager Brian Gutekunst.

Nonetheless, he said, no decision has been made yet. “All options are on the table,” Rodgers said. “There are things that seem more plausible or more likely that I’m not necessarily going to go into, but the most important thing first is commitment to the game, going through the offseason and training and all that stuff.”

The one-time Super Bowl champion said he was “not afraid” of retirement, adding that he was excited about “what was going to come after football. “