2024-09-10 06:35:03
One of the NFL’s biggest names is getting the Netflix sports treatment.
Aaron Rodgers, a four-time league MVP and quarterback of the New York Jets, will be the subject of a three-hour docuseries on the streamer. Aaron Rodgers: Enigma is set to premiere Dec. 17 — eight days before Netflix takes its biggest leap into live sports with two NFL games on Christmas Day (though neither one involves the Jets).
The Rodgers series is one of several sports projects Netflix announced Monday: It has also picked up a third season of Full Swing, which follows golfers on the PGA Tour, and ordered a new slate of documentaries under the Untold banner. Among the subjects for the latter in 2025 will be the notorious locker-room gun incident involving Washington Wizards players Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton; the beef and cheating accusations between chess grandmasters Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen; and a steroid scandal involving a wellness influencer who calls himself the Liver King.
Aaron Rodgers: Enigma follows the quarterback and self-styled contrarian thinker as he attempts to return to the field after tearing his Achilles tendon just four plays into the Jets’ 2023 season. It will also, per the show’s description, “explore his life and career through the intimate and difficult parts that made him a household name on and off the field.”
Religion of Sports, Skydance Sports and NFL Films produce the series. Gotham Chopra, Ameeth Sankaran, Victor Buhler, David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jason Reed, Jon Weinbach, Ross Ketover, Keith Cossrow, Ken Rodgers and Jessica Boddy executive produce.
Netflix also released a clip from the show, in which Rodgers discusses how he processes decisions on the field and talks with Dr. Neal Elattrache, the orthopedic surgeon who repaired the QB’s torn Achilles. Watch it below.
Full Swing comes from Pro Shop Studios, Box to Box Films and Vox Media Studios. Chad Mumm and Mark W. Olsen of Pro Shop executive produce along with Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees and Warren Smith of Box to Box.
Propagate and Stardust Frames Productions are behind the Wizards and chess installments of Untold. The Liver King story is produced by Bitachon 365 and Candle True Stories. EPs for Untold include Chapman Way, Maclain Way, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Isabel San Vargas, Ryan Duffy, Sheldon Lazarus and Gabe Turner for Bitachon 365 and James Goldston for Candle True Stories.
The Rodgers series, Full Swing and Untold are part of an upcoming slate of sports-related projects at Netflix. The roster also includes Polo, a look at the U.S. Open Polo Championship and its competitors from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions and Last Chance U producer Boardwalk Pictures; The Comeback, about the 2004 Boston Red Sox and their long-awaited World Series title; scripted series Senna, about the Formula 1 legend; and Rez Ball, a feature film that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
