Green Bay General Manager Ted Thompson claims that Aaron Rodgers will be the team's starting quarterback in 2008, despite recent talk of Brett Favre returning, according to The Wisconsin State Journal. "Our stance is that Brett, just like any other retired player, has the option to ask the commissioner for reinstatement," said Thompson, who placed Favre on the reserve/retired list April 25. "If he does that, he'll go on our active roster. Then we'll see how it goes after that. We don't know where that goes." Last week Favre asked for the team to release him. "We have no plans to release him," Thompson said this weekend. When asked if the team is willing to trade Favre if it comes to that, Thompson said simply, "I don't know that we need to talk about hypotheticals. The man's still retired."