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 workforce’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 any person else signed could be a problem for the workforce.
Rodgers visited with the Steelers practically 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 only a few weeks away, the one two quarterbacks on the Steelers roster are Mason Rudolph, again for his second stint with the workforce, and Skylar Thompson. Neither choice is right for a beginning function, whereas they’re a whole overhaul of their quarterback depth chart for the second 12 months in a row. It’s awfully troublesome to win with that form of instability at crucial place on the sphere.
Tomlin’s lack of an replace on Rodgers, in addition to the Steelers’ quarterback scenario, actually appears to drive house the actual 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 obtainable.
In the case of the remaining free brokers, Rodgers is just about it. And there may be little about that choice 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 stage of distractions he can carry,
The Steelers maintain the No. 21 total choose, however it’s a weak quarterback class and the highest prospects might not be obtainable when they’re on the clock.
Regardless of who begins on opening day, it is going to be their fifth totally 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 12 months’s might be. It additionally appears verly doubtless, primarily based on the obtainable 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 vast receiver room this offseason by including DK Metcalf to go together with George Pickens and Calvin Austin, addressing an enormous weak spot from a 12 months in the past. Now they simply have to determine who’s going to really be passing them the soccer.
