The four-time MVP wants to offer readability quickly.
The Pittsburgh Steelers anticipate to study whether or not Aaron Rodgers will play within the 2026 season earlier than subsequent month’s NFL Draft.
Rodgers helped the Steelers to a 10-7 file and an AFC North title final yr, although Pittsburgh suffered a heavy defeat to the Houston Texans within the Wild Card Spherical of the playoffs. Head coach Mike Tomlin’s 19-season tenure got here to an finish following ninth successive yr with no playoff win.
Pittsburgh employed Rodgers’ former head coach with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, Mike McCarthy, as Tomlin’s successor.
But the 42-year-old four-time MVP has but to decide as as to whether he’ll reunite with McCarthy and spend a second season with the Steelers.
However with the draft simply over three weeks away, Steelers president Artwork Rooney II is assured they may have a solution on his plans quickly.
“I nonetheless anticipate that,” Rooney informed The Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette on the annual league conferences in Arizona. “I anticipate we’ll get a solution earlier than the draft.
“After I talked to him and [general manager] Omar [Khan] talked to him, he informed us he wasn’t going to take as lengthy this yr as he did final yr [to make a decision].
“I’m not one hundred pc positive what which means, however I anticipate one thing earlier than the draft.”
The Steelers can be extraordinarily eager for readability on Rodgers’ intentions given the one two quarterbacks on their roster are profession backup Mason Rudolph and 2025 sixth-round decide Will Howard.
Rodgers signed a one-year contract with the Steelers final offseason after parting with the New York Jets. He accomplished 65.7 % of his passes for 3,322 yards with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions.
