Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin met with the media on Sunday forward of the NFL’s proprietor’s conferences and supplied an replace on the group’s quarterback state of affairs, in addition to its pursuit of free agent Aaron Rodgers. The replace: There isn’t a replace. Not less than nothing definitive.
Tomlin mentioned the Steelers haven’t any definitive timeline for the Rodgers state of affairs to unfold, whereas they proceed to discover their different choices in free company and the draft. He additionally appears content material with the method taking a while, including that the beginning of coaching camp can be the primary time not having any person else signed can be a problem for the group.
Rodgers visited with the Steelers almost two weeks in the past, however that was solely described as a “get to know one another” assembly. There was no replace or progress from both facet since.
With the calendar set to roll over to April, and with the 2025 NFL Draft only a few weeks away, the one two quarterbacks on the Steelers roster are Mason Rudolph, again for his second stint with the group, and Skylar Thompson. Neither possibility is good for a beginning function, whereas they’re an entire overhaul of their quarterback depth chart for the second 12 months in a row. It’s awfully troublesome to win with that kind of instability at a very powerful place on the sphere.
Tomlin’s lack of an replace on Rodgers, in addition to the Steelers’ quarterback state of affairs, actually appears to drive dwelling the very fact the group didn’t have a stable plan going into the offseason.
They didn’t make a lot of an effort to retain both Russell Wilson or Justin Fields and have missed out on just about each different veteran quarterback that was accessible.
Relating to the remaining free brokers, Rodgers is just about it. And there’s little about that possibility that ought to make Steelers followers optimistic given his age and quickly declining play the previous few years. To not point out the sideshow circus degree of distractions he can convey,
The Steelers maintain the No. 21 total choose, however it’s a weak quarterback class and the highest prospects might not be accessible when they’re on the clock.
Irrespective of who begins on opening day, will probably be their fifth totally different Week 1 beginning quarterback over the previous 5 years, going from Ben Roethlisberger to Mitch Trubisky, to Kenny Pickett, to Justin Fields, to whoever this 12 months’s might be. It additionally appears verly doubtless, based mostly on the accessible choices, that streak will proceed for a sixth season in 2026 if they don’t get the place proper this offseason.
The Steelers lastly made an actual improve to their large receiver room this offseason by including DK Metcalf to go together with George Pickens and Calvin Austin, addressing an enormous weak spot from a 12 months in the past. Now they simply have to determine who’s going to really be passing them the soccer.
