The Pittsburgh Steelers are at present on observe to have longtime backup Mason Rudolph as their Week 1 beginning quarterback, and plenty of consider Pittsburgh ought to use the primary spherical of the 2025 NFL Draft to handle the place no matter how Aaron Rodgers decides to spend subsequent season.
Some previously linked the Steelers with each Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart. Throughout Thursday’s version of his “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” program, Cowherd shared that Pittsburgh coaches could have a unique to-be rookie signal-caller in thoughts.
“I talked to an NFL exec final evening,” Cowherd defined, as shared by Joe Clark of Steelers Depot. “Thoroughly-connected, and it is a ‘keep-your-head-on-a-swivel,’ Aaron Rodgers. I am instructed the Steelers actually like (Alabama quarterback) Jalen Milroe. Twenty-first decide, first spherical…They’re taking a quarterback. If the twenty first decide, Milroe’s not taken, Pittsburgh is leaning now and taking him.”
Curiously, Cowherd supplied his replace after ESPN’s Matt Miller predicted in his newest mock draft revealed on Thursday morning that the Steelers will make Milroe the 83rd total decide of this 12 months’s draft.
The draft shares of Sanders and Dart, ranked second and third behind Miami’s Cam Ward in most quarterback energy rankings for this 12 months’s class, have develop into transferring targets. Some believe each Sanders and Dart might be top-nine picks, whereas others think a minimum of one in every of them will slide into the second spherical. If each are off the board when Pittsburgh known as to spend the twenty first total choice, the AFC North aspect could not be capable of go on Milroe and hope to get him later within the draft.
In a mock draft revealed on Tuesday evening, Cleveland Browns reporter Tony Grossi of ESPN Cleveland/The Land on Demand predicted that the Browns will seize Milroe if he is accessible at decide No. 33. Milroe beforehand had new Browns offensive coordinator Tommy Rees as his OC in faculty.
The Steelers touchdown Rodgers however then drafting Milroe can be fascinating, if solely as a result of signing the 41-year-old future Corridor of Famer is a win-now transfer that theoretically ought to be adopted up by the membership utilizing a first-round draft decide to construct round him. With that mentioned, these operating the Atlanta Falcons appear to have no regrets about making Michael Penix Jr. the eighth total decide of final 12 months’s draft lower than two months after the Falcons signed veteran Kirk Cousins.
