Note: This updates our story from Thursday afternoon with fresh material.



Aaron Rodgers has made some amazing plays in his career.

The third-down throw to Greg Jennings late in the Super Bowl. The fake-spike touchdown to Andrew Quarless to win at Miami. The touchdown pass to Davante Adams while being dragged to the turf just before halftime at Jacksonville. The Hail Mary to Richard Rodgers to shock at Detroit.

But his touchdown pass to win the two-minute drill at Thursday’s training camp practice has to rank right up there on the amazement scale.

On fourth-and-10 from the defense’s 26-yard line with 8 seconds to go, Rodgers first coaxed outside linebacker Vince Biegel offside, resulting in a free play and an opportunity to take a chance. Rodgers extended the play to his left and looked left the entire play. Without looking or turning his body, he threw a no-look pass to Geronimo Allison, who made a leaping catch in the right side of the end zone. The ball probably traveled 35 yards in the air and couldn’t have been thrown with any better accuracy.

"Special play," coach Mike McCarthy said when asked on Friday morning. "Definitely, it reminded me of the Arizona throw in some ways right before the throw that put us in overtime to Jeff Janis. I think you appreciate it more when you watch the video. I know I did, because he spoils you. You don’t have too many practices around here where he doesn’t make that throw where you’re just like, ‘OK, file that onto the library. That’s the way you want to teach it.’ That one there, I don’t know, we’ll have to start a different library for that throw. It was a special throw."

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The only thing more amazing than the play was Allison’s ho-hum reaction to what he had witnessed. Finally, Allison picked up on reporters’ reaction to the play.

“Even Aaron, like, you guys don’t expect him to make that type of throw,” Allison said after Thursday's practice.

Nope. That kind of play is not normal.

“That’s the thing, he’s not normal,” Allison said. “He’s human, I understand that. But he’s special, and he makes people around him special. And when he does stuff like that, it’s only right on our part that we make that play and finish that play. That’s what makes the whole thing special. If that play doesn’t get made, we’re not talking about it.”

Allison caught the ball against rookie cornerback Jaire Alexander, who seemingly had given up on the play. He showed a sense of humor and an appreciation for a lesson learned.

“Ah, I can’t recall that,” Alexander said.

The touchdown to Allison?

“Threw it on who? Me? Me?”

Yes, you.

“I can’t recall.”

The touchdown in two-minute?

“I’ve got a short-term memory on some things. So, I’m not sure. I forgot.”

And on it went.

“Oh, the throw, I remember that throw,” he said. “The throw was crazy. The throw was wild. That was a good throw. I can’t remember how it ended.”

It ended with a touchdown for Rodgers and Allison and a valuable lesson to never, ever give up on a play against an elite quarterback.

“That was actually a big teaching tool for me that that happened,” Alexander said. “I wasn’t expecting it, at all. I’m glad it actually happened, definitely a teaching tool.”

As was the case with Allison, Cobb was more surprised about the reaction to the play than the play itself, which obviously speaks volumes about Rodgers' career.

“That’s why he’s perceived to be the guy that he is,” Cobb said. “Nobody else can make plays like that. But you know what, we take a lot of pride on our end because we have to be alert at all times because if we don’t come down with the ball then those plays mean nothing. G-Mo made a great catch on that, as well.”