Aaron Rodgers hopes to produce documentaries when NFL career ends

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — When Aaron Rodgers walks away from the NFL — and the Green Bay Packers quarterback doesn’t plan to do so for another “six, seven, eight years” — you probably won’t find him in the broadcast booth doing color commentary or on the sideline coaching.

But, if things happen the way he hopes, you might see him at the Oscars — and not because he’s photobombing Common on the red carpet.

Rodgers has long been a fan of documentaries — he once said on his weekly ESPN Wisconsin radio show that his Netflix queue is filled with them — and told ex-Packers teammate A.J. Hawk in an interview on Hawk’s podcast last week that he would like to produce such films when his career is over.

“I just want to continue to learn,” Rodgers told Hawk during the nearly two-hour interview. “I have plenty of charitable endeavors that’ll keep me busy and plenty of business ventures that’ll keep me busy, but I’m going to have to find a way to fill that competitive void when [football] is done, and I don’t think it’s going to be playing in an over-35 basketball league or making a run at the Senior Tour, which every golfer believes they can do. Let me tell you: That can’t happen, not for guys like me.

Dating actress Olivia Munn has piqued Aaron Rodgers’ interest in filmmaking, especially documentaries. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for DirecTV

“It’s going to have to be something that involves competing, even if …

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