In his predraft information convention, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin insisted that uncertainty about the way forward for quarterback Aaron Rodgers wouldn’t impression how the membership would deal with the twenty first general choose of the 2025 player-selection course of.
The Steelers then shocked some when they chose Oregon defensive sort out Derrick Harmon at No. 21 when signal-callers comparable to Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe have been all on the board.
After that choose was made, NFL insider Josina Anderson reported that the Steelers “communicated with Aaron Rodgers at first of the week that they want to obtain a solution from him earlier than the draft (at the very least 48 hours).” Anderson added that the Steelers “know the result of that dialog.”
Shortly earlier than the Tennessee Titans made Miami quarterback Cam Ward the draft’s first choice, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio talked about that “some suppose Rodgers will certainly signal with the Steelers, and that his announcement might come as quickly as subsequent week.” Per Josh Carney of Steelers Depot, NFL Community insider Ian Rapoport recommended throughout an on-air report shared on Thursday evening that some throughout the Steelers needed Sanders over Harmon.
“My understanding is as of [Wednesday],” Rapoport stated in regards to the Steelers presumably drafting Sanders, “they have been going forwards and backwards. Is the worth value that split within the room?”
It is value noting that Rodgers remained unsigned as of Friday morning and, thus, might change his thoughts and retire if he has instructed the Steelers he needs to play for them later this 12 months. In spite of everything, he was “90 percent retired and 10 percent playing” earlier than he determined within the spring of 2023 that he needed to be traded from the Inexperienced Bay Packers to the New York Jets.
Pittsburgh not deciding on a quarterback at No. 21 might in the end permit the membership to amass wantaway Atlanta Falcons veteran Kirk Cousins earlier than this weekend ends if the Steelers have moved on from Rodgers.
At the very least one current NFL general manager thinks it is “assured” that the Falcons will commerce Cousins now that they are all in on beginning 2024 first-round draft choose Michael Penix Jr. this coming fall. Cousins has a full no-trade clause connected to his contract and reportedly wasn’t eager on becoming a member of a workforce that spent a 2025 first-round alternative on a quarterback (Titans, New York Giants).
