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He’s a former Super Bowl champ and former Celebrity Jeopardy! champ who has won three NFL MVP awards.

Who is Aaron Rodgers?

The 37-year-old quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, who revealed in February he’s engaged to marry actress Shailene Woodley, also taped two weeks of Jeopardy episodes as the next guest host to fill in for the late legend Alex Trebek. Rodgers’s episodes begin airing tonight through April 16.

“I remember thinking, this would be like a dream job…if Alex ever retired at like 90,” Rodgers told Jeopardy! producers in a backstage interview between taping his episodes. “I love trivia so much.”

Rodgers, known to non-football fans as a TV pitchman for State Farm insurance, hopes to bring “respect for the position” as Jeopardy! host. “Alex did it with such grace and humility. I just wanted to bring the same type of approach to let you people know that I was focused. that I cared about it, that I loved the game and that I wanted to do him justice.”

He couldn’t be any worse than what fans suffered through the previous two weeks, watching Dr. Mehmet Oz (of The Dr. Oz Show), who incensed both fans and former contestants, such as former Jeopardy! College Champion Sam Deutsch, who Tweeted: “if i produced a TV show where the whole point is about testing contestants’ knowledge of facts, I simply wouldn’t hire a crank charlatan to host it.”

Some 600 former players signed a petition asking the show to remove Oz from the celebrity lineup of guest hosts, to no avail.

There’s no doubt that Rogers knows his trivia. Here’s a clip from 2015 of him stiff-arming Shark Tank‘s “Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary and astronaut Mark Kelly, who’s now a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Arizona.

So far we’ve already also seen Jeopardy! GOAT Ken Jennings, Katie Couric, and Jeopardy! EP Mike Richards as potential replacements for Trebek, who hosted for 37 seasons from 1984 until his death from pancreatic cancer in 2020.

Jennings makes logical sense, while Richards could follow the mold of Bravo’s Andy Cohen, a longtime executive emerging from behind the camera to become the next on-air moderator of mayhem. Er, trivia.

If you cannot wait to bench Rodgers, though, you’ll have to wait two weeks for his replacement. That’s CNN’s Anderson Cooper. He’ll be followed by 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker, and sitcom star Mayim Bialik.