Rodgers gives students pass on final exam

Want to get out of a final exam? Ask NFL All-Pro quarterback Aaron Rodgers or former NBA great Kobe Bryant for some help.

That’s what students in Iowa and Indiana did.

“@AaronRodgers12 our teacher agreed to not give us a final in sports lit if you retweet this! PLEASE RETWEET SHE IS YOUR BIGGEST FAN! (with three emojis of praying hands),” Peyton Meyer of Janesville, Iowa, tweeted.

“I’m sure a sports lit final is very important, but here you go… .#PayItForwardFriday,” Rodgers replied.

The class made a deal with its teacher, Laura Roberts, who is a Rodgers fan, that a retweet from the quarterback would cancel the final in a sports literature class made up of high school juniors and seniors.

“We were talking about the news in sports like we do every day, and she mentioned that a student at another school tweeted at Kobe [Bryant],” Meyer told ESPN. “We asked if we could do the same, and we know she loves Aaron, so that’s why we picked him.”

Meyer and his class got the idea from Indianapolis Ben Davis High School senior William Pate.

“@kobebryant PLEASE IF YOU RETWEET THIS WE DONT HAVE TO TAKE THE FINAL PLEASE RT @ kobebryant,” Pate pleaded on Twitter with a picture of himself and his teacher shaking on the deal.

It took nearly seven hours for Bryant to respond, but he came through in the clutch.

“Hope you have an A in this class,” Bryant replied.

AP/BEN MARGOT A retweet from Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers got some students at a high school in Janesville, Iowa, out of a final exam in sports literature.