Baltimore Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy has 55.5 sacks on his career and is fresh off a career-best campaign in which he tallied 12.5 sacks and reached his first Pro Bowl. None of those hits on the quarterback, however, have come against Aaron Rodgers. Van Noy said he wants to change that, now that he and the four-time MVP are divisional rivals once again.
Rodgers signed this month with the Pittsburgh Steelers, which means Van Noy will have two opportunities in 2025 to get revenge for a play that still haunts him a decade later. It was during his stint with the Detroit Lions that Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, burned his defense for a touchdown and left a sour taste in Van Noy’s mouth.
“I’d like to get him back,” Van Noy said on NFL Network. “For whatever reason, the D-coordinator [Teryl Austin], who’s actually the D-coordinator of the Steelers, wanted to go Cover 0 all game against Aaron Rodgers. He caught us. We’re like, ‘Oh, we gotta run it.’ Ended up scoring a touchdown to Jordy Nelson. He ended up walking by and kind of tapped me on my butt, like, ‘Nice try.’ So I gotta get him back for that. That’s been there for 10 years.”
Van Noy averaged one sack per start in his most recent campaign. If he stays on that pace, the best of his career, he should be due to take Rodgers to the ground at least once this fall.
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