For a bit revealed late Sunday night time, ESPN’s Brooke Pryor made word of the Pittsburgh Steelers “passing on a quarterback 4 instances earlier than lastly choosing 24-year-old developmental prospect Will Howard out of Ohio State within the sixth spherical” of the 2025 NFL Draft.
She wrote that the transfer prompt that, for people related to the Steelers corresponding to crew proprietor and president Artwork Rooney II, “(Aaron) Rodgers was very a lot current of their decision-making course of.”
Throughout a Monday morning look on Pittsburgh sports activities radio station 102.5 WDVE, Steelers reporter Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette supplied an replace on the Rodgers saga which may be nearing its conclusion.
“The Steelers firmly consider that he’ll signal with them,” Dulac stated about Rodgers, per Ross McCorkle of Steelers Depot. “It is much less probably that he will not be their quarterback.”
Whereas talking on the Steelers’ flagship radio program this previous Friday, Rooney stated that “we’re nonetheless sort of getting the identical alerts” that Rodgers “does wish to come right here, so I do assume we might get phrase quickly.”
After Pittsburgh drafted Oregon defensive deal with Derrick Harmon at total choose No. 21 this previous Thursday night time, NFL insider Josina Anderson reported that the Steelers “communicated with Aaron Rodgers at first of [last] week that they want to obtain a solution from him” relating to his intentions for the 2025 season “a minimum of 48 hours” earlier than the beginning of the player-selection course of.
Anderson added that the Steelers knew “the end result of that dialog.”
The group handed on drafting a big-name quarterback prospect corresponding to Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart, Louisville’s Tyler Shough and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe.
On Friday, ESPN “Unsportsmanlike” co-host and analyst Evan Cohen revealed {that a} dialog with “any person who’s near Rodgers” left Cohen believing that “it is nearly as if” the long run Corridor of Famer “needs the Steelers to make a transfer so he does not need to say no to them.” The Athletic’s Zak Keefer subsequently identified that the Steelers misplaced some “leverage” in talks with Rodgers as a result of they presently must begin both longtime backup Mason Rudolph or potential QB3 Skylar Thompson over Howard this coming September.
That stated, Josh Kendall of The Athletic famous that the Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints ended the draft on monitor to begin quarterbacks aside from Rodgers.
Except the Vikings quickly change their minds about turning to 2024 first-round draft choose J.J. McCarthy, it seems the Steelers and Rodgers will want one another if the 41-year-old decides he is not but able to trip off into the sundown of retirement.
