Aaron Rodgers Slams ESPN Over Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini Scandal

Aaron Rodgers took aim at ESPN — while appearing on ESPN — blasting the network for how it has handled the Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini scandal.

“What is the network doing?” Rodgers, 42, asked on the Monday, August 3 episode of The Pat McAfee Show. “You have literally an individual that maybe used to work at ESPN that covers our league at the highest level and there’s a major scandal and nobody can f***ing talk about it? What are we doing here?”

Russini, 43, worked for ESPN from 2015 to 2023, before leaving to become The Athletic’s senior NFL insider. In April 2026, Page Six published photos of her with the New England Patriots head coach at a resort in Arizona. As The Athletic began an internal investigation, additional images emerged, including one appearing to show the pair kissing at a New York City bar in 2020.