Steelers’ Cameron Heyward has message for Aaron Rodgers: ‘Just come back, baby!’

While there is not essentially a tough deadline, workforce proprietor Art Rooney II stated on March 31 on the Annual League Meeting he expects an answer from Rodgers by the draft, which is now 5 days away.

Heyward did not learn on that milestone as a possible date for when the Steelers may know for certain that Rodgers is returning or not.

“I don’t know,” he stated when requested when he thought there’d be a solution. “But I think everyone is all in on him. For what we got to see this season, we were pleasantly surprised how great he was coming off of being on the Jets, to him just being a breath of fresh air of how he went about his business. He was accountable, held others accountable, loves the game, and just studies his ass off. I haven’t seen many guys at that level of just knowing the insides and outs of football.”

If Rodgers does determine to lace it up for a twenty second NFL marketing campaign and spend his age-43 season with the Steelers, Pittsburgh will nonetheless look lots completely different. Mike McCarthy, Rodgers’ previous coach from the Packers, is in the saddle after Mike Tomlin stepped down. The workforce traded for Michael Pittman to enrich DK Metcalf within the passing sport, and by signing Rico Dowdle to pair with Jaylen Warren hopefully bolstered a working assault that was too anemic final season.

The clock is ticking, however issues are falling into place to make a possible second yr within the Steel City simpler for Rodgers.

As for how Rodgers goes about coming to a call, Heyward felt comfy poking enjoyable at a number of the QB’s earlier off-the-field endeavors whereas theorizing about his course of.

“He might be on a darkness retreat,” Heyward stated relating to the place Rodgers may at present be. “He might be shooting season two of Enigma. Or he might just be getting ready for Jeopardy. My guy can do a lot of different things, but he’ll be ready for the season hopefully.”