New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s weekly appearances on the Pat McAfee Show don’t usually tend to be too serious—a part of his bio reads, “Ayahuasca Enthusiast,” after all. Viewers of the latest episode of the show had extra reason to take Rodgers’s and McAfee’s chummy conversations with a heaping of salt after it appeared that the two spread an inaccurate NFL statistic on-air.

ESPN host Pat McAfee and New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers ... Rodgers, a regular guest on McAfee’s ESPN show, apparently didn’t see that fact-checking. Instead, he parroted the fake stat, wondering whether it was real. “Jared hadn’t thrown ...

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday repeated a stat on The Pat McAfee Show that turned out to be completely made up by someone on the internet.