Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin met with the media on Sunday forward of the NFL’s proprietor’s conferences and provided an replace on the staff’s quarterback scenario, in addition to its pursuit of free agent Aaron Rodgers. The replace: There is no such thing as a replace. No less than nothing definitive.
Tomlin stated the Steelers don’t have any definitive timeline for the Rodgers scenario to unfold, whereas they proceed to discover their different choices in free company and the draft. He additionally appears content material with the method taking a while, including that the beginning of coaching camp could be the primary time not having someone else signed could be a problem for the staff.
Rodgers visited with the Steelers almost two weeks in the past, however that was solely described as a “get to know one another” assembly. There was no replace or progress from both aspect since.
With the calendar set to roll over to April, and with the 2025 NFL Draft just some weeks away, the one two quarterbacks on the Steelers roster are Mason Rudolph, again for his second stint with the staff, and Skylar Thompson. Neither possibility is right for a beginning position, whereas they’re an entire overhaul of their quarterback depth chart for the second yr in a row. It’s awfully troublesome to win with that form of instability at an important place on the sphere.
Tomlin’s lack of an replace on Rodgers, in addition to the Steelers’ quarterback scenario, actually appears to drive dwelling the very fact the group didn’t have a stable plan going into the offseason.
They didn’t make a lot of an effort to retain both Russell Wilson or Justin Fields and have missed out on just about each different veteran quarterback that was out there.
Relating to the remaining free brokers, Rodgers is just about it. And there’s little about that possibility that ought to make Steelers followers optimistic given his age and quickly declining play the previous few years. To not point out the sideshow circus degree of distractions he can carry,
The Steelers maintain the No. 21 general decide, however it’s a weak quarterback class and the highest prospects is probably not out there when they’re on the clock.
Regardless of who begins on opening day, it is going to be their fifth completely different Week 1 beginning quarterback over the previous 5 years, going from Ben Roethlisberger to Mitch Trubisky, to Kenny Pickett, to Justin Fields, to whoever this yr’s shall be. It additionally appears verly possible, primarily based on the out there choices, that streak will proceed for a sixth season in 2026 if they don’t get the place proper this offseason.
The Steelers lastly made an actual improve to their huge receiver room this offseason by including DK Metcalf to go along with George Pickens and Calvin Austin, addressing an enormous weak spot from a yr in the past. Now they only have to determine who’s going to really be passing them the soccer.
