Steelers select the future of their franchise at QB despite recent statement from Aaron Rodgers in new 2026 NFL Mock Draft
See who they have coming in at signal caller.
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ QB discussion will continue up and until they find their future signal caller.
You know, their next franchise quarterback, a la Big Ben.
Well, in the first mock draft of the 2025-2026 NFL season, A to Z Sports collaborated on a first-round mock that sent the Steelers a player who could be Ben Roethlisberger 2.0…
Steelers Select Drew Allar in 2026 NFL Mock Draft
One way or another, the Steelers are drafting a quarterback in 2026. And it will likely happen sooner rather than later. Drew Allar of Penn State has the physical traits to be their next Big Ben. It’s too easy a pick, even if he’s rough around the edges heading into his final season.
In this mock, Allar lasted all the way to the 17th pick. As the head of the Allar fan club at A to Z Sports, if he has another big year for Penn State, I can promise you he will be long gone before the 17th pick in the draft.
The tangible traits are just too tantalizing. He’s a hybrid of Josh Allen and Ben Roethlisberger physically. He may not be the fastest in a straight line, but he is a capable mover with a whip of an arm.
Now, are the intangibles the best? Processing speed, anticipation, instincts…Not quite. But he just turned 21 years old, and I don’t know how much Penn State football everyone consumed, but they didn’t have a single WR on their team that could separate in 2024.
So I believe the Steelers will take a QB, and Allar seems like the best fit. However, upon hearing some recent comments from Aaron Rodgers, it seems there’s a world where he’s back in 2026, which seemed pretty far-fetched just a few months ago.
“I love this game, and I don’t need it,” Rodgers said on Cam Heyward’s Not Just Football Podcast. “I’ve had a 20-year career. I’ve had a lot of success, accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish, but I fell in love with this game when I was five years old. And I wanted to get that love back to where I felt like it should be in the twilight of my career.”
Pittsburgh has been that place for Rodgers thus far. Still in the honeymoon stage of his relationship with the Steel City, we’ll wait for the games to start before determining what happens next, but Rodgers slipped in a “maybe” when pushed by DK Metcalf to potentially run it back in 2026.
And maybe he does, but that shouldn’t preclude the Steelers from drafting a name like Allar if he’s available in April.
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