Green Bay Packers tackle Chad Clifton says QB Aaron Rodgers belongs in the Hall of Fame
Former Green Bay Packers tackle, Chad Clifton spent 12 years playing for the same franchise since being drafted by the Packers in 2000.
However, he was released by Green Bay following a failed medical test and at 35-years of age the tackle can understand why the franchise let him go.
Speaking in a radio interview to ESPNWisconsin on Friday, Clifton did not seem too bitter about being released by the Packers.
"I definitely knew it was a possibility. Kind of going into it, there's not a lot of 35-, 36-year-old left tackles in the league. I knew at some point they'd want to get younger, absolutely."
Clifton had been a stalwart for the Packers offensive line for many years and helped protect two of the most talented quarterbacks to ever grace the league in future Hall of Famer and Packers great, Brett Favre and current Green Bay quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.
The left tackle said in his interview that he believes Rodgers who is the reigning Most Valuable Player (MVP) has the potential to become a Packers great and is a Hall of Famer in the making.
"I think I see what everybody else sees. He's obviously very talented, very, very competitive -- 100 percent, I think he’s going to be in the Hall of Fame, right alongside Brett and a lot of the other great quarterbacks who have come through this league.
He's got that kind of talent, that kind of will, and he's a great, phenomenal player."
Clifton had a wonderful career at Green Bay and made it to the Pro-Bowl twice in his career in 2007 and 2010.
He also won the Super Bowl with Green Bay in 2010, however, his final season as at the Lambeau Field did not progress so well.
The tackle tore his hamstring early in the season and his recovery was further delayed after a back injury.
With health problems and being on the wrong end of the 30s Clifton though is still not prepared to call it a day on his career and is continuing to rehabilitate while he still harbours the hope that another franchise will come in with an offer for his services
even his old team the Green Bay Packers.
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