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So, will Aaron Rodgers re-sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Still, Pittsburgh doesn’t have a firm answer on whether its 2025 starting quarterback will return to the Steelers next season. With that in mind, Steelers owner Art Rooney provided an update on Rodgers.
“We are in regular contact with Aaron. He keeps us updated on his plans. Although I thought it probably would have been concluded by now, I think we will come to a conclusion here in the next few weeks,” Rooney said of Rodgers in an interview with NFL Network Wednesday night.
The Steelers initiated the unrestricted free agent offer on Rodgers, 42, earlier this week. Now, in the event that Rodgers signs with another NFL team, Pittsburgh would receive a compensatory draft pick.
“The main thing the tender gives us is the possibility of a roster choice if Aaron chose to go to another team. We don’t expect that, but in the same way, you never know,” Rooney said of the Steelers issuing the unrestricted free agent tender on Rodgers. “It’s just something we had an opportunity to protect, if necessary. The deadline was Monday, so if we wanted to do it, we had to pull the trigger on Monday.
“We alerted Aaron and his representative that we were going to do this. It’s not a big deal, but it’s just something that, in the unlikely event that he goes elsewhere, we are eligible for a choice in that situation.”
Last season, Rodgers and the Steelers won the AFC North 10-7 before losing to the Houston Texans in the AFC wild-card round. In 16 regular season starts, Rodgers totaled 3,322 passing yards, 24 passing touchdowns, seven interceptions and a passer rating of 94.8, while completing 65.7% of his passes.
As for Pittsburgh’s quarterback room, it includes veteran Mason Rudolph, second-year signal-caller Will Howard and Drew Allar, who the Steelers selected with the No. 76 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
If Rodgers ultimately returns to the Steelers, he would be reunited with his former head coach, Mike McCarthy, who coached the four-time NFL MVP from 2006-2018 with the Green Bay Packers and was hired by the Steelers to replace outgoing Mike Tomlin in January.
