What's it like to catch a TD from both Rodgers and Favre?

Ruvell Martin's archetypal NFL touchdown drawback was calved from a busted play.

Nineteen years ago, then-Green Bay Packers backmost Brett Favre was expected to find wide receiver Greg Jennings arsenic helium chopped crossed the middle, and Martin's occupation was to tally a heavy dummy way and wide retired the country to unfastened Jennings' way underneath.

But the San Francisco 49ers country didn't bite, leaving Martin wide unfastened down the near sideline. Jennings recognized the bust, and arsenic helium locked eyes with Favre, helium hastily pointed to Martin streaking toward the extremity zone. Favre adjusted and fto it alert 36 yards. Martin hauled it successful for his archetypal NFL people and the archetypal points of Green Bay's 30-19 Week 13 triumph against the 49ers successful 2006.

"Martin got truthful wide open," Favre said astatine the time. "But the happening was, determination was Greg Jennings pointing to him being truthful wide open. ... I've ne'er had a feline moving down the tract pointing to a teammate who happened to beryllium wide open."

Fast-forward 2 years later.

Martin caught different touchdown successful a acold little important infinitesimal for the Packers -- the 4th fourth of a 51-29 Week 12 nonaccomplishment to the New Orleans Saints -- but it was a consequential drawback that granted him admittance to an exclusive club. With that snag, Martin secured his lone vocation touchdown drawback from Aaron Rodgers connected a 4-yard pass.

"It was a thing touchdown due to the fact that we were down similar 3 scores, astatine slightest astatine the time," Rodgers said. "I emotion Ru, though. Ru was my feline connected the look squad for 3 years. ... One of my all-time favourite teammates."

Nearly 2 decades later, Martin is 1 of conscionable six players to drawback touchdown passes from Favre and Rodgers. And though helium had a seven-year NFL vocation aft spending clip astatine Saginaw Valley State (Division II), NFL Europe and connected the signifier squad, Martin is the astir improbable subordinate of that six-pack.

"It's chill to recognize and to cognize that that is the case," Martin told ESPN. "I deliberation present that I'm older, it does suffer its luster a small bit. When you archetypal get into the NFL, you're benignant of wide-eyed, and you're like, 'Man, each this worldly is cool.' And past I deliberation erstwhile you're successful it for the magnitude of clip that I was successful it, and the position present that I person coming retired of it, conscionable benignant of seems similar I was conscionable surviving my beingness and hanging retired with my friends and doing immoderate chill stuff."

As Rodgers, who signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers this offseason and has 507 vocation passing touchdowns, closes successful connected surpassing Favre's vocation people of 508 -- which ranks 4th among NFL's all-time passing leaders -- lone Jennings, WR James Jones, WR Donald Driver, TE Donald Lee, RB Brandon Jackson and Martin cognize what it's similar to drawback a scoring onslaught from the brace of Packers legends. And though the retired Favre's touchdown full is set, Rodgers tin propulsion his adjacent higher arsenic helium and the Steelers (1-0) big the Seattle Seahawks (0-1) successful the location opener Sunday (1 p.m. ET, Fox).

"It's conscionable a longevity achievement," Rodgers said of closing successful connected Favre's mark. "... A batch of guys are a portion of that. Some touchdowns you marque exceptional plays. Some, the strategy is truthful good, ... each you got to bash is not screw it up, and past sometimes, you propulsion a abbreviated 1 to a feline and helium goes 60 and it goes successful t...