This comes months after he shared that he had “tough conversations” with his family members earlier this year following years of estrangement

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• Aaron Rodgers praised his brother Jordan Rogers’ work as a college football analyst during a recent visit to Acrisure Stadium
• He shared a photo of the two smiling with their arms around each other
• The two had been estranged for years, but Aaron said his wife Brittani helped him feel ready to reconnect with his family after difficult conversations

Aaron Rodgers is supporting his younger brother Jordan Rodgers after years of estrangement.

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, 42, shared a glimpse of the brothers’ renewed relationship on Friday, Nov. 13. Aaron could be seen posing with Jordan, 38, an analyst for ESPN and ABC, in a photo on Instagram.

The two posed with their arms around each other in front of an ESPN College Football sign at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. Aaron wore a casual gray sweater with black pants and a black baseball cap as he smiled at the camera, while Jordan appeared to be in his work uniform in a black blazer with a blue tie. 

“Great to see little bro @jrodgers11 in his element tonight  @acrisurestadium. Really proud of how hard he’s worked to get to where he is now 👊🏻 @pitt_fb @mikemonaco_ #,” the NFL player captioned the post. 

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The brothers’ recent reunion marks a notable development in a family rift. Jordan first discussed their strained relationship during his appearance on his now-wife JoJo Fletcher’s season of The Bachelorette, explaining that Aaron would not be attending because they had been estranged for some time.

Aaron later told WISN in July 2016 that he felt it was “a little inappropriate [for Jordan] to talk publicly about some family matter.” He was invited to Jordan and Fletcher’s wedding in Mexico in 2022, but it appears he did not attend.

In September, Aaron offered an update on the relationship during an appearance on the Not Just Football podcast, where he said he reconnected with his family, including parents Ed and Darla Rodgers, ahead of their move from California to Nashville earlier this year.

“A couple weeks after that, I went out to Nashville and met with my older brother,” Aaron said, referring to his older brother Luke Rodgers, who lives in the city with his wife Aimee and their three children. “A couple weeks after that, I met with my little brother. It was cool. There were tough conversations for sure, but I’m just in a much better headspace.”

He went on to credit his wife, Brittani, with helping him reach a place where he felt ready to repair family relationships.

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“My wife deserves a lot of the credit for that just to be able to get to that point to think about having the conversations, she was a big part of that,” he explained during the Sept. 10 episode of Not Just Football. “And not that she was pushing anything, she wasn’t, it was more, and you guys can probably relate to this, when you’re loved by someone in such an unconditional, beautiful, pure way, it changes your perspective on all of your relationships around that. That becomes your anchor point. Well, if I can be made to feel like this by this person, I feel like it opens up your heart in an even deeper way that I never experienced before.

“I mean, a year ago, even two years ago, five years ago for sure, I would have said, ‘No, I’m never going to reconcile. It’s just not going to happen. It’s not in the cards. I’m not ready for that,’ ” he continued. “It was really built in judgment, just like ego and judgment. And ego and judgment gets in the way of any progress or evolution. I had to really put those aside.”

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