Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered an apparent injury at the end of the first half of the team's NFL Week 3 game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium.
Rodgers walked awkwardly to the locker room after exchanging words with Bengals defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence II.
"Lawrence's right knee landed on Rodgers' side," CBS color analyst Ross Tucker said.
"Certainly a play they would take back if they had a chance," play-by-play announcer Ian Eagle added.
Rodgers is in his 22nd NFL season, second with the Steelers.
Rodgers' announcement in May that he'll retire after the 2026 season meant the Bengals may face the future Pro Football Hall of Famer just two more times.
Rodgers and the Bengals' Joe Flacco are the NFL's oldest active quarterbacks.
Rodgers turned 42 years old last December. Flacco turned 41
in January.
In 2025, a Week 7 Steelers-Bengals meeting at Paycor Stadium, Flacco and Cincinnati prevailed, 33-31, in a game the Steelers' Cam Heyward dubbed the "Icy Hot Bowl."
Rodgers and the Steelers avenged the loss four weeks later in Pittsburgh, though Rodgers was replaced after suffering a left wrist injury in the second quarter.
Bengals backup Josh Johnson is the league's third-oldest active quarterback.
Rodgers is 3-3 against the Bengals in 20 NFL seasons.
Rodgers' first four career games against the Bengals took place while he quarterbacked the Green Bay Packers, before he split his two meetings with Cincinnati last season.
When Andy Dalton and the Bengals visited Lambeau Field in September 2017, they led 21-7 at the half. But the Packers rallied to outscore Cincinnati 17-3 in the second half and beat the Bengals on a Mason Crosby field goal at the end of overtime.
Rodgers passed for 313 yards with three touchdowns in that game.
Rodgers' only matchup with Joe Burrow ended in heartbreak for the Bengals.
When Rodgers brought the Packers to Cincinnati in October of the 2021 season that concluded with a Bengals Super Bowl appearance, both teams entered the game with 3-1 records.
The Bengals scored on a Joe Mixon touchdown run with 3:27 left in the fourth quarter and tied the game on a 2-point conversion from Burrow to Tee Higgins. But a 49-yard field goal by Crosby in overtime gave the Packers a 25-22 win.
Rodgers was 27-of-38 passing for 344 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.
Burrow, referred to by former teammate Mike Daniels before that season as "baby Aaron Rodgers," finished 26-of-38 passing for 281 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Rodgers lost his first two meetings against the Bengals.
Dalton and the Bengals stunned Rodgers and the Packers with 13 unanswered, fourth-quarter points to win 34-30 in Cincinnati in September 2013.
The Bengals' game-winning touchdown came on a Terence Newman 58-yard fumble return.
Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson and Cedric Benson helped the Bengals to a 31-24 win at Lambeau Field against Rodgers and the Packers in 2009.
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