{"id":48016,"date":"2025-05-14T02:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48016"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:23:06","slug":"breaking-steelers-receive-significant-aaron-rodgers-update-ahead-of-nfl-schedule-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48016","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Steelers Receive Significant Aaron Rodgers Update Ahead of NFL Schedule Release.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2192539793_4f70c4.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2192539793_4f70c4.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2192539793_4f70c4.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2192539793_4f70c4.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Aaron Rodgers\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"900\" data-img-load-time=\"1530\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter provided an update in the Pittsburgh Steelers effort to sign Aaron Rodgers while appearing on ESPN&#8217;s Unsportsmanlike on Tuesday morning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019\u00a0wait for\u00a0Aaron Rodgers\u00a0reaches two months this week. There also doesn\u2019t appear to be an end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>NFL insider Adam Schefter, though, projected while appearing on\u00a0ESPN\u2019s\u00a0<em>Unsportsmanlike<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday that the Steelers might finally get a Rodgers resolution just before mandatory minicamp in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Steelers\u2019 mandatory minicamp is next month. Forget the exact date, roughly June 10th,\u201d Schefter said on the radio show,\u00a0via Steelers Depot\u2019s Ross McCorkle. \u201cI would think that we would get a decision from Aaron Rodgers shortly before then about whether or not he should play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, you can\u2019t miss that mandatory minicamp where you start gearing up. I guess you can, but it\u2019s not ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schefter\u2019s memory served him correctly.\u00a0The Steelers will begin\u00a0mandatory minicamp on June 10.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s voluntary offseason workouts, though, begin prior to that on May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Schefter\u2019s update comes during NFL schedule release week, which is notable, because the Steelers will play Rodgers\u2019 former team, the\u00a0Green Bay Packers, in 2025.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter Projects Aaron Rodgers Timeline for Steelers<\/h2>\n<p>Schefter is one of the most plugged in NFL insiders. That\u2019s why any update he gives on Rodgers is going to be news.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s important to note that this update is not a report. Because minicamp is considered mandatory, Schefter\u2019s opinion is that Rodgers wouldn\u2019t miss those workouts with his new team.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers and the Steelers could have a different opinion about the quarterback\u2019s minicamp participation. Rodgers made it rather clear\u00a0during an appearance\u00a0on ESPN\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Pat McAfee Show<\/em>\u00a0on April 17 that he has people in his inner circle dealing with personal issues that are his current priority.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now this is my opinion<\/em>, but Rodgers didn\u2019t sound like a man willing to let \u201cmandatory\u201d minicamp impact his timeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>\u201cThis entire time I haven\u2019t felt like I owed anybody some sort of decision at any point,\u201d Rodgers told McAfee,\u00a0via NFL.com\u2019s Eric Edholm. \u201cThis is my life. I said things are different now. My personal life is different. I have stuff in the inner circle, that I\u2019m intimately close to, that\u2019s really important to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been upfront with them about that, and said, \u2018Listen, if you need to move on. If you need to do something, by all means. By all means.\u2019 Nothing but love and respect if that\u2019s the decision that needs to be made. There\u2019s been no deadline. I\u2019ve talked to [Steelers head coach] Mike [Tomlin] many times.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers missed mandatory minicamp with the\u00a0New York Jets\u00a0last season\u00a0for a trip to Egypt. For most of his career with the Packers, though,\u00a0Rodgers fully participated\u00a0in offseason workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Packers,\u00a0Steelers-Packers were rumored\u00a0this offseason to be the NFL\u2019s matchup for Dublin in Week 4. But on Tuesday, the league announced\u00a0the Steelers will face\u00a0the\u00a0Minnesota Vikings\u00a0in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible the NFL either knows or is holding out hope Rodgers will sign with Pittsburgh to make the Steelers-Packers matchup a primetime affair at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has never played the Packers in his NFL career.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>How Long Will Steelers Wait for Rodgers?<\/h2>\n<p>After failing to sign a couple of the top free agent quarterbacks,\u00a0the Steelers gave Rodgers a contract offer. When it grew clear Rodgers wasn\u2019t going to make a decision immediately, Pittsburgh\u2019s offer became open ended.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mike Tomlin\u00a0declined to give a deadline\u00a0for Rodgers while speaking to reporters at the league\u2019s annual spring meetings on March 30. The quarterback confirmed to McAfee that the team hasn\u2019t given him a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The closest the Steelers have come\u00a0to giving Rodgers a deadline is when team president Art Rooney II said on April 1 the organization\u00a0wouldn\u2019t \u201cwait forever\u201d for the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>But other than that, Rooney\u00a0has used vague phrasing\u00a0with the quarterback\u2019s decision. On April 25,\u00a0Rooney said\u00a0the team \u201cmay get word soon\u201d from Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>With 20 years of NFL experience, Rodgers doesn\u2019t need the offseason workouts for himself. But the Steelers offense needs to build chemistry with whichever new quarterback the team starts in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, it makes a lot of sense for Rodgers to follow Schefter\u2019s timeline and make a decision before Steelers minicamp. But the quarterback has clearly made no guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m open to anything,\u201d\u00a0Rodgers said on April 17, \u201cand attached to nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter provided an update in the Pittsburgh Steelers effort to sign Aaron Rodgers while appearing on ESPN&#8217;s Unsportsmanlike on Tuesday morning. 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