Aug 25, 2022; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) warms up before a game against the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports

Hall of Fame TE Shannon Sharpe on Aaron Rodgers' 'immunized' controversy: 'He lied. The end.'

By Victor Barbosa | Last updated 8/29/22

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is less than two weeks away from his starting his 18th NFL season and starting the defense of his back-to-back MVP awards.

Over the weekend, the 38-year-old appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" and discussed his infamous "immunized" comments to reporters from last season.

As a refresher, during the summer of 2021, when asked by members of the media if he was vaccinated against COVID-19, Rodgers answered in the affirmative and said that he was "immunized." It was learned last November however, after he tested positive for the virus, that he wasn't fully vaccinated.

Rodgers eventually took "full responsibility" for his "misleading" comments and during his interview with Rogan, addressed the fiasco again.

"I’d been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it. ... And I had come to the conclusion, I’m gonna say, ‘I’ve been immunized.’ And if there’s a follow-up, then talk about my process," the signal-caller told Rogan. "But, thought there’s a possibility that I say, ‘I’m immunized,’ maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t. Maybe they follow up. They didn’t follow up. So then I go (into) the season them thinking, some of them, that I was vaccinated."

Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, who is now one of the outspoken co-hosts of FS1's "Undisputed," went on Twitter on Sunday and gave his take on the situation.