Steelers launch OTAs on Tuesday, apparently without Aaron Rodgers

On Tuesday, the Steelers will conduct the primary of solely six 2025 OTA practices. Barring a sudden and sudden flip, quarterback Aaron Rodgers received’t be there.

It could be very becoming for Rodgers to attempt to present up quietly, with a low-key signing that doesn’t embody any pomp and/or circumstance. When he visited the crew in March, he did it discreetly; it didn’t come to mild till somebody from the crew blabbed to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette.

Nonetheless, Rodgers hasn’t signed but. Likelihood is he received’t be signing by tomorrow. (However, no, it’s not inconceivable.)

The query turns into whether or not Rodgers will present up for any of the upcoming OTAs over the subsequent two weeks. After that, the Steelers have their annual obligatory minicamp. (Final yr, Rodgers skipped the Jets’ obligatory minicamp to go to Egypt.)

The Steelers have 9 offseason practices earlier than coaching camp. With out Rodgers, the quarterbacks shall be Mason Rudolph, Skylar Thompson, and rookie Will Howard. (If Rodgers exhibits up, Thompson doubtless inches towards the endangered species listing in Pittsburgh.)

Bear in mind this: In 2009, Brett Favre didn’t present up in Minnesota till the center of August. There supposedly was a “schism” within the locker room between embracing Favre and driving with incumbent starter Tarvaris Jackson. That schism was resolved as quickly as Favre began throwing passes.

In Pittsburgh, any consternation concerning the protracted delay will evaporate as quickly as Rodgers grabs a soccer and rifles it not like a lot of the gamers on the sphere have ever seen — or heard — a soccer thrown earlier than.

First, he has to indicate up. If he doesn’t, the Steelers must resolve whether or not to experience with Rudolph. Or whether or not to pivot to somebody/anybody else.