Steelers make ‘rare’ Aaron Rodgers move as they wait for return decision
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“Pittsburgh put the right-of-first-refusal tender on Rodgers on Tuesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported.”
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Multiple web search results cite reports from ESPN's Adam Schefter confirming that the Steelers placed a right-of-first-refusal tender on Aaron Rodgers.
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— Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the California Golden Bears, setting the school's record for lowest singl…
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— Adam Bernard Jones (born September 30, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. Nicknam…
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— Patrick Justin McAfee ( MAK-ə-fee; born May 2, 1987) is an American sports analyst, color commentator, former professional wrestler, and former professional football punter and kickoff specialist. He …
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“It gives the Steelers the right to match any offer sheet he would sign with another team, while giving Rodgers a 10-percent raise from last year if he signs — pushing his one-year contract to approximately $15 million.”
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— Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the California Golden Bears, setting the school's record for lowest singl…
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— William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, (born 28 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State for Transpo…
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— Dominique Reshard Rodgers-Cromartie (born April 7, 1986) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college…
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“It also means that Rodgers can only sign with the Steelers once training camp begins.”
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Two separate web search results report that a condition of the tender is that Rodgers would only be able to sign with the Steelers once training camp begins.
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— The Pittsburgh Steelers had a huge development on the Aaron Rodgers front following the 2026 NFL Draft."As another condition of the tender, Rodgers would only be able to sign with the Steelers once tr…
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— Breaking news: Aaron Rodgers plans to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab hop on an emergency edition on Inside Coverage to break down all the implications of the veteran QB…
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— The nightmare scenario for the Steelers would be waiting for Rodgers to sign until training camp. It would create a great story to wonder what will happen at the quarterback position, only to see Rodg…
https://stillcurtain.com/3-most-likely-time-frames-aaron-rod…
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“The team drafted Penn State’s Drew Allar in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Friday, and he is set to to compete with Will Howard and Mason Rudolph for the starting job.”
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While Wikipedia confirms Drew Allar was selected by the Steelers and that he played for Penn State, the specific details—being drafted in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft on a Friday, and the explicit comparison to Will Howard and Mason Rudolph—are not corroborated by multiple independent sources. The evidence is heavily sourced from general Steelers news pages.
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— The 2026 season will be the Pittsburgh Steelers' 94th season in the National Football League (NFL), it will be their 26th year playing their home games at Acrisure Stadium, their fifth under general m…
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— Drew Patrick Allar (born March 8, 2004) is an American professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn Stat…
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— This is a list of Penn State Nittany Lions football players in the NFL draft.
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“Howard, a sixth-round pick last year, did not play any snaps for the Steelers last season as the team’s third-stringer behind Rodgers and Rudolph.”
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The web search results confirm Will Howard was a sixth-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, but the specific claim that he 'did not play any snaps for the Steelers last season' is not independently corroborated by multiple sources.
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— Andrew Fillipponi Calls Out Steelers’ Drew Allar Pick. For the past four college football seasons, Allar has been with the Nittany Lions. Across those four seasons, he’s completed 63.2% of passes for …
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— The Steelers took Howard in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, the 185th overall pick and the eighth quarterback taken in that draft.
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— The Steelers had done extensive research on this year’s class, with the plan of adding a mid-round QB to join 2025 sixth-round pick Will Howard on a depth chart that likely will also feature Aaron Rod…
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““I wish I could tell you we’re at the end of the discussion, but we’re still talking to Aaron and he’s still deciding what he wants to do,” Steelers owner Art Rooney II said on the DVE Morning Show ahead of the draft last week.”
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Multiple web search results cite Art Rooney II stating that the Steelers were still in discussions with Aaron Rodgers regarding his decision.
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— The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Arabic: قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان; Hebrew: כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL (Arabic: يونيفيل; Hebrew: יוניפי״ל) is a United Nations peacekeeping…
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— Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) fires off a pass during the first half of an NFL football game at Huntington Bank Field, Dec. 28, 2025, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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““I think we’re close. He’s kind of told us his time frame and what he’s going to be up to over the next couple of weeks. I think we’ll have an answer soon, let’s put it that way.””
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Multiple web search results attribute statements to Art Rooney II indicating that the Steelers expected an answer from Rodgers soon, based on a timeframe provided by Rodgers.
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— The 2025 season was the Pittsburgh Steelers' 93rd in the National Football League (NFL), their fourth under general manager Omar Khan, their 25th playing their home games at Acrisure Stadium and their…
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— The Pittsburgh Steelers are an American football franchise representing Pittsburgh. They are the seventh-oldest club in the National Football League (NFL), which they joined in 1933. The only survivin…
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— The Ravens–Steelers rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers.
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“If Rodgers does return, it will be under a new head coach for the Steelers with Mike McCarthy replacing Mike Tomlin.”
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— Michael Pettaway Tomlin is an American professional football coach who most recently served as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League from 2007 to 2025.
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— Pittsburgh has verbally agreed to bring in Mike McCarthy as its next head coach, the team announced Saturday. McCarthy, a Super Bowl winner in 2011 with the Packers, previously coached the Cowboys fro…
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— While many believed Pittsburgh parting ways with former head coach Mike Tomlin all but sealed Rodgers not returning in 2026, Pelissero says that isn’t the case — and it likely has to do with Tomlin’s …
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“Tomlin, who left the Steelers after 19 seasons on the sidelines, predicted on Sunday that Rodgers would return to the Steelers.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia entries to support the claim that Mike Tomlin predicted on Sunday that Aaron Rodgers would return to the Steelers.
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