When Aaron Rodgers showed up to Steelers minicamp last year with a wedding ring, it sparked plenty of speculation about his personal life. Rodgers had not made a relationship with his now-wife public before that. His friends weren't invited to any wedding. Rodgers would get defensive whenever he was asked about his wife.
Fast forward a year later, and we still haven't seen Rodgers' wife, Brittani, in any capacity. But the Steelers quarterback — now in his 22nd and final NFL season — is at least willing to discuss his mysterious wife.
Appearing on the Not Just Football podcast with Cam Heyward, Rodgers spoke openly about his marriage for the first time. The couple was married in 2025. And though there is no public record of any marriage, California
does allow for confidential marriages. According to Rodgers, he met Brittani in 2017 and spent years regretting that he hadn't pursued a relationship with her earlier.
Rodgers said:
“In 2017, I met my wife, and at the time, she was leaving the States and going back to Europe. And my biggest regret is not begging her to stay or proposing right there because that sent me right there into a tailspin of what can I be accused of as a partner in a relationship.”
He continued:
“I was emotionally unavailable, I think, for those seven or eight years because I met the person that had changed my life. And after that, I just poured everything I had into football, and I think I got a lot out of that for sure, but I knew I was supposed to be with this one person. But we were separated by an ocean for a lot it.”
Rodgers was in a relationship with Danica Patrick between 2018 and 2020. He also had an engagement with actress Shailene Woodley called off in 2022.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Aaron Rodgers offered rare details about his wife Brittani
