Aaron Rodgers does many things well. Right at this moment, he throws a football better than anybody else on earth. This can be supported statistically (33 touchdowns, four picks, 9.6 yards per completion and a 127.7 quarterback rating for the only unbeaten team in the NFL) and viscerally (even among the very best throwers, Rodgers's ball comes out a just a little tighter and sharper than others, a widely acknowledged fact in the NFL quarterback underground; and he's arguably the best on-the-run thrower in history, certainly the best since Joe Montana and Rodgers has a much bigger arm than Montana did, which is not to say he's better than Montana was but maybe that he's headed in that direction).
And he wins. The Packers have won 17 consecutive games (four short of the NFL record), a streak that (obviously) includes last year's four-game run to the Super Bowl title. The Pack hasn't lost since last Dec. 19 at New England, a game in which Rodgers didn't play, because of a concussion. (Their last loss with Rodgers in the lineup came a week earlier at Detroit, a game in which Rodgers was knocked out: their last defeat with Rodgers going the distance was more than a year ago, Nov. 28 at Atlanta).
For more than a year, he has been the best player at (by far) the most important position in American professional sports and led a storied franchise to its most recent championship. For these reasons alone, Rodgers belongs in the Sportsman of the Year discussion. He deserves to win it because he's even better at something else: Waiting.
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