Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a game against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 7, 2025. — Ed Thompson / Steelers Now
Aaron Rodgers waited behind Brett Favre for three seasons. The former, who most recently played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and is keeping them waiting for a decision on his future, seems to still be following the latter’s lead.
“I think Rodgers is playing again, and I think the Steelers are being coy because there’s reason to,” Eisen said Friday. “They’re keeping the door open for him. I don’t know if June is the time. Who knows what’s going on? I feel like it’s every year. It’s so crazy how he mirrors pretty much everything about (Brett) Favre’s career. Everything about Favre’s career. Since being the guy who had to wait for Favre to leave for him to get his shot.
“It’s unreal that we’re now in the waiting game of ‘Is he? Is he not?’ like we did with Favre — after he went to the Jets. Just like Favre. It’s crazy.”
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a game against the Green Bay Packers on Oct. 26, 2025. — Ed Thompson / Steelers Now
Rodgers, a first-round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, signaled that Favre’s time with the Green Bay Packers was nearing its end. Favre held Rodgers off until deciding to retire — for the first time — in 2008. Favre called off his retirement twice, and his indecision during the later years of his career became a subject of jest.
Rodgers, meanwhile, hasn’t sat in front of media and called it quits, but he did wait until June to join the Steelers last year.
Before landing in the Steel City, Rodgers spent two seasons with the New York Jets, the same franchise to which Favre was traded after a long tenure quarterbacking the Green Bay Packers. However, after tearing his Achilles during his initial game with the Jets, Rodgers spent one more season in the shadow of the Empire State Building than Favre did. Neither led the snakebitten team to the postseason.
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