{"id":107922,"date":"2025-06-06T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107922\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:38:11","slug":"ex-steelers-wr-antonio-brown-claims-aaron-rodgers-tried-recruiting-him-back-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107922\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Steelers WR Antonio Brown claims Aaron Rodgers tried recruiting him back to Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aaron Rodgers-to-Pittsburgh news set the NFL world ablaze \u2014 but former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers<\/a> WR Antonio Brown revealed he tried to bring him along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1930713654569357436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLFootball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLFootball<\/a>, Brown reached out and reported that Rodgers had tried recruiting him to Pittsburgh in February \u2014 seemingly confirming that the four-time MVP had plans all along to sign with the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MLFootball is hardly Adam Schefter, but Brown didn&#8217;t dispute the report \u2014 in fact, he retweeted the claim, as seen below:<\/p>\n<p>Brown is actually just three years older than 33-year-old WR Robert Woods, who was signed by the Steelers last month. Still, his attitude and off-the-field antics led the Steelers to part ways for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Brown attempted to confirm the Rodgers-to-Pittsburgh signing early \u2014 but not many took the wideout seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Could Rodgers have genuinely tried to recruit Brown back to Pittsburgh, or is this simply AB being AB on social media?<\/p>\n<p>For up-to-date Steelers coverage, follow us on X <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteelersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheSteelersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">@TheSteelersWire<\/a> and give our <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SteelersWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Facebook page<\/a> a like.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/06\/06\/steelers-antonio-brown-aaron-rodgers\/84063638007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ex-Steelers WR Antonio Brown says Aaron Rodgers recruited him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ex-Steelers WR Antonio Brown says Aaron Rodgers recruited him<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aaron Rodgers-to-Pittsburgh news set the NFL world ablaze \u2014 but former Steelers WR Antonio Brown revealed he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[27327,4191,6086,4888,7,6,520,57,2360,5329,1636,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-107922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers-to-pittsburgh","9":"tag-adam-schefter","10":"tag-antonio-brown","11":"tag-brown","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","17":"tag-robert-woods","18":"tag-rodgers","19":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114635047250107609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}