Perhaps he called an audible on calling it quits?
Aaron Rodgers appeared to hint that he and Shailene Woodley are still together despite multiple insiders saying they have broken up and the “Divergent” star being spotted without her engagement ring less than a week ago.
“When your home life is stable and you have an amazing partner to do life with, it just makes the work life a bonus,” the NFL MVP, 38, said on “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday, “and it changes your perspective because you’re able to not look at work as, like, a refuge.”
Rodgers said he recently told Woodley, 30, “I’ve been with you two years, won two MVPs — that’s not a coincidence, either.”
He said significant others of athletes are often looked at as “possible distractions,” but he credits the “Big Little Lies” star for much of his success in the NFL in recent years.
“I know, for me, it’s been great the last two seasons to have that stability at home,” the Green Bay Packers quarterback added.
“When things are good in your personal life and your relationships, your friendships, your loved ones, it allows you to just relax and be so much more grateful, I think, for the little things in life,” Rodgers reiterated to McAfee.
When asked whether Woodley has “changed” and “shaped” him since they’ve started dating, the football player responded, “Oh yeah, without a doubt.”
“I’ve learned so much from her,” he said. “She’s just an incredible woman — talented, smart, kind. I said it last night, she taught me what unconditional love looks like.”
Rodgers was referencing an Instagram post he shared Monday, in which he spoke about gratitude, thanked Woodley for “always having my back” and even shared a picture of the couple cuddling.
The quarterback also said on McAfee’s show that having a partner like the “Fault in Our Stars” actress makes life “more enjoyable, and tasteful and exciting.”
“When you meet your person, life just changes, and you can’t possibly not be changed being around those special people that we meet,” he continued, singing her praises. “Friendships can do that. Relationships can do that. And you’re never the same because you know that you can’t be.”
However, in the interview, Rodgers may have also given insight into what may have produced the split rumors.
One of the insiders, who claimed to know about the breakup, told People, “They’re very different people with busy careers, and there were obstacles that they couldn’t surmount.”
Rodgers previously admitted he did not get the COVID-19 vaccine, and sources said the couple were “not talking about their politics” and had decided to “agree to disagree about things and not debate them.”
Rodgers told McAfee that he had “a lot of feelings of remorse” about that situation and how it affected Woodley and his other loved ones.
He said, “I am very sorry to those people — Shai, my loved ones, and my agents … I didn’t realize the kind of shrapnel they’d be taking.”
Rodgers continued, “I never meant to get you in the middle of it, but you got into it by proxy because of your relationship with me, and I love you guys. I appreciate the support.”
The pair began dating in 2020, and in February 2021, while accepting the Most Valuable Player award during the NFL Honors, Rodgers casually thanked his “fiancée” — without naming her.
A source then confirmed to People soon after that the pair were, in fact, engaged.
A rep for Woodley did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment on Rodgers’ latest interview.