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So, um, will Aaron Rodgers re-sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Still, Pittsburgh doesn’t have a firm answer on whether its 2025 starting quarterback will run back with the Steelers next season. With that in mind, Steelers owner Art Rooney gave an update on Rodgers.
“We’ve been in contact with Aaron on a regular basis. He’s been keeping us up to date with his plans. Although I thought it would probably be over by now, I think we will come to a conclusion here in the next couple of weeks,” Rooney said of Rodgers in an interview with NFL Network on Wednesday night.
The Steelers tendered the unrestricted free agent offer to the 42-year-old Rodgers earlier this week. Now, in the event Rodgers signs with another NFL team, Pittsburgh would receive a compensatory draft pick.
“The main thing the offer gives us is the potential for a comp pick if Aaron were to choose to go to another team. We don’t expect that, but by the same token, you never know,” Rooney said of the Steelers placing the unrestricted free agent offer on Rodgers. “It’s just something that we had the ability to protect if we had to. The deadline was Monday, so if we were going to do that, we had to pull the trigger on Monday.
“We warned Aaron and his rep that we were going to do it. Not a real big deal, but it’s just something that, in the unlikely event that he goes somewhere else, is eligible for a comp pick 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. Across 16 regular season starts, Rodgers totaled 3,322 passing yards, 24 passing touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 94.8 passer rating while completing 65.7% of his passes.
As for Pittsburgh’s quarterback room, it features veteran Mason Rudolph, second-year signal caller Will Howard and Drew Allar, whom the Steelers selected with the 76th overall 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 the departing Mike Tomlin in January.
