It is extensively believed that Kirk Cousins of the Atlanta Falcons, who has a full no-trade clause hooked up to his contract, will not settle for a transfer to a distinct membership till he sees which groups choose quarterbacks with first-round picks after he misplaced his beginning job to 2024 rookie Michael Penix Jr. this previous December.
Throughout a Wednesday look on Pittsburgh sports activities radio station 93.7 The Fan, NFL insider Mike Florio of Professional Soccer Discuss advised the same mindset is why Aaron Rodgers hasn’t but joined the Pittsburgh Steelers, though most signs level to Rodgers ultimately signing a cope with the group.
“I do not assume he desires to enter a scenario the place there’s gonna be an opportunity that if issues do not go nicely, he is gonna get placed on the bench for anyone else,” Florio mentioned about Rodgers’ pondering, as shared by Alex Kozora of Steelers Depot.
Florio is not alone, as Fox Sports activities’ Jason McIntyre supplied the same concept throughout Wednesday’s version of FS1’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” program.
“You see what the Falcons did final yr? They ushered within the Kirk Cousins period,” McIntyre defined, per Jake Brockhoff of Steelers Depot. “Two months later, they drafted Michael Penix [eighth overall], and clearly it messed with [Cousins’] head. He was coming off an harm. Rodgers is coming off an harm as nicely. And also you begin to surprise, no surprise Rodgers is not committing. He simply noticed Kirk Cousins get completely shafted.”
Each Rodgers and Cousins spent final offseason recovering from torn Achilles accidents they suffered in the course of the 2023 marketing campaign. Extra lately, Rodgers dealt with a number of knee points, a low ankle sprain and a hamstring drawback this previous fall.
As for the Steelers presumably grabbing a quarterback with the twenty first general decide of the 2025 draft, they’ve been linked with names reminiscent of Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart. It is attainable Pittsburgh may full a commerce to maneuver up within the draft order for a kind of signal-callers relying on how issues play out on April 24.
Quite a few stories have indicated Rodgers actually wants to play for a Minnesota Vikings facet that appears prepared to show to 2024 first-round draft alternative J.J. McCarthy. Assuming the Steelers are Rodgers’ fallback possibility, he could really feel he has no purpose to place pen to paper on a contract till he sees what Pittsburgh does in the course of the opening spherical of the draft.
