The Pittsburgh Steelers are waiting around for Aaron Rodgers to make a decision, with the future Hall of Fame quarterback likely having to choose between Pittsburgh or retirement.
There has been some thought that the Rodgers situation may impact how Pittsburgh approaches the draft, but that was shot down by head coach Mike Tomlin on Tuesday.
In what was the final press conference before the 2025 NFL draft on Thursday, Tomlin said that Rodgers will have no impact on how the Steelers approach the event. General manager Omar Khan also noted that the team plans on having four quarterbacks on the roster when Pittsburgh reports to training camp later this year. Right now, the Steelers have just Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson signed.
“It does not,” Tomlin said, per ESPN’s Brooke Pryor, when asked if the Rodgers situation will have any impact on the team’s draft strategy.
“I know you have questions about quarterbacks… I’ve said before we will have four QBs when we report to Latrobe,” Khan revealed, according to Chris Adamski of TribLive.com. “Right now we have two. All options are on the table when it comes to the last two.”
When it comes to this year’s quarterback class, Khan heaped praise on the group, calling it “a good quarterback class.”
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One of the top signal-callers in this year’s draft is Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, who the Steelers have met with. Tomlin briefly touched on the meeting with Sanders, who could land in their lap at No. 21 overall.
“I’ve know his father for a long time. My first time meeting him… it was a normal pre-draft visit. To spend time with a young man to talk ball,” Tomlin said.
“There’s a toughness there that doesn’t get talked about enough,” Tomlin added on Sanders. “There’s a competitive spirit there that doesn’t get talked about enough.”
The answer on Rodgers is not surprising at all.
Even if Rodgers lands with the Steelers, he’s only going to be a short-term band-aid and not someone the team can rely on for the long haul. Ideally, the Steelers land Rodgers in free agency and have him start for a year with a young quarterback developing behind him.
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