One of many NFL’s largest names is getting the Netflix sports activities therapy.
Aaron Rodgers, a four-time league MVP and quarterback of the New York Jets, would be the topic of a three-hour docuseries on the streamer. Aaron Rodgers: Enigma is about to premiere Dec. 17 — eight days earlier than Netflix takes its largest leap into stay sports activities with two NFL video games on Christmas Day (although neither one entails the Jets).
The Rodgers collection is one in every of a number of sports activities initiatives Netflix introduced Monday: It has additionally picked up a 3rd season of Full Swing, which follows golfers on the PGA Tour, and ordered a brand new slate of documentaries below the Untold banner. Among the many topics for the latter in 2025 would be the infamous locker-room gun incident involving Washington Wizards gamers Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton; the meat and dishonest 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 makes an attempt to return to the sector after tearing his Achilles tendon simply 4 performs into the Jets’ 2023 season. It is going to additionally, per the present’s description, “discover his life and profession via the intimate and tough elements that made him a family identify on and off the sector.”
Faith of Sports activities, Skydance Sports activities and NFL Movies produce the collection. Gotham Chopra, Ameeth Sankaran, Victor Buhler, David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jason Reed, Jon Weinbach, Ross Ketover, Keith Cossrow, Ken Rodgers and Jessica Boddy govt produce.
Netflix additionally launched a clip from the present, by which Rodgers discusses how he processes choices on the sector and talks with Dr. Neal Elattrache, the orthopedic surgeon who repaired the QB’s torn Achilles. Watch it beneath.
Full Swing comes from Professional Store Studios, Field to Field Movies and Vox Media Studios. Chad Mumm and Mark W. Olsen of Professional Store govt produce together with Paul Martin, James Homosexual-Rees and Warren Smith of Field to Field.
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 Tales. EPs for Untold embody Chapman Manner, Maclain Manner, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Isabel San Vargas, Ryan Duffy, Sheldon Lazarus and Gabe Turner for Bitachon 365 and James Goldston for Candle True Tales.
The Rodgers collection, Full Swing and Untold are a part of an upcoming slate of sports-related initiatives at Netflix. The roster additionally contains Polo, a take a look at the U.S. Open Polo Championship and its opponents from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions and Final Likelihood U producer Boardwalk Footage; The Comeback, in regards to the 2004 Boston Purple Sox and their long-awaited World Collection title; scripted collection Senna, in regards to the Method 1 legend; and Rez Ball, a function movie that simply premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.