Sources: Rodgers to visit Steelers, likely to play for team in ’26
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is anticipated to visit the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend and is likely to play for them this season, sources advised NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport on Thursday.
There isn’t any settlement between the Steelers and Rodgers at the moment, sources advised ESPN.
Steelers president Art Rooney II advised NFL Network final week that he remained confident Rodgers would be the team’s quarterback in 2026 and believed the uncertainty would wrap up quickly. However, Rooney additionally stated on the NFL’s annual assembly in late March that the Steelers anticipated a solution from Rodgers for the NFL draft, which did not occur.
General supervisor Omar Khan and coach Mike McCarthy, nevertheless, stated earlier than the draft that the Steelers weren’t placing a deadline on the 42-year-old quarterback to notify the team of their determination. Khan indicated the team’s conversations with Rodgers had “all been positive and good.”
With Rodgers remaining unsigned in free company, the Steelers applied the rarely used UFA tender on Rodgers late final month, guaranteeing they’d be eligible to safe a compensatory draft choose if he signed with one other team.
If Rodgers had been to signal the tender, he would obtain a ten% increase off final yr’s wage, which might pay him about $15 million this season. The tender additionally offers the Steelers unique negotiating rights with the quarterback if he doesn’t signal with one other team by July 22 or the primary day of Pittsburgh’s coaching camp, which is later.
Rodgers, who will flip 43 through the 2026 season, was seamlessly acclimated to the Steelers in 2025 after signing a one-year, $13.65 million contract earlier than their June minicamp. The four-time MVP went 10-6 in 16 begins, lacking the Week 12 loss on the Chicago Bears after fracturing his wrist the week earlier than in a win in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals. Rodgers completed the season finishing 65.7% of his cross makes an attempt with 24 touchdowns to seven interceptions.
Returning to the Steelers in 2026 would imply a reunion between Rodgers and McCarthy, his coach for 13 seasons with the Green Bay Packers. Rodgers received two of his 4 NFL MVP awards enjoying beneath McCarthy and a Super Bowl championship after the 2010 season when Green Bay defeated the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV.
ESPN’s Brooke Pryor contributed to this report.
