NFL insider expects the Pittsburgh Steelers to move on from Aaron Rodgers if his mind isn't made up by pivotal off-season date
If you ever needed an example to prove that quarterbacks dominate the NFL news cycle, Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers should be your case study. With Rodgers still holding out for whatever reason, the Steelers remain in Limbo at the most important position in sports. But according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, that […]
If you ever needed an example to prove that quarterbacks dominate the NFL news cycle, Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers should be your case study.
With Rodgers still holding out for whatever reason, the Steelers remain in Limbo at the most important position in sports.
But according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, that waiting period is about to end, with or without Aaron Rodgers….
Steelers Waiting on Rodgers…Until the 2025 NFL Draft
"If Aaron Rodgers is gonna play football in 2025, it is going to be for the Pittsburgh Steelers," said Ian Rapoport on NFL Network's Good Morning Football on Monday. "Would not be surprised if there was an announcement from him over the next couple weeks. It has to be theoretically before the draft, because if the Steelers don't get an answer by late April, they will likely draft a quarterback." "In fact, they may draft a quarterback anyway."
So the timeline is clear. The Steelers have been far too complacent throughout this whole debacle not to believe that Aaron Rodgers is their QB in 2025. But what is interesting is that when you start to read all the tea leaves, including the last line of Rapoport's quote, drafting a quarterback in round one is a possibility that the Steelers would consider if the right name was available…
"I was of the mind that Pittsburgh was not taking a quarterback in Round 1,” Schefter said on his podcast. “I think the only quarterback that they would consider, me reading between the lines, would be Shedeur. But I can’t imagine he’s gonna slide to 21. Would Pittsburgh be willing to trade up to a certain point to go get Shedeur Sanders, if he gets past those other spots? If the Browns don’t take Shedeur Sanders at two, and if the Giants don’t take Shedeur Sanders at three, and that is the feel that I’m getting recently, where is Shedeur Sanders going…
“…I think the two spots that you look at today, three weeks out, and this is a fluid process, and it changes, but today, I’m looking at the New Orleans Saints at No. 9 and the Pittsburgh Steelers at No. 21, who never, ever would’ve thought Shedeur would ever slide to them. And he probably still won’t, but there was a time where we said Aaron Rodgers won’t slide to 23, he was gonna go number one, and he wound up sliding on draft day, all the way to number 23.”
Oh, and don't rule out a potential trade up from the Steelers for Sanders if he somehow slips past the top 10, with New Orleans serving as the last real competition for Pittsburgh.
