{"id":107937,"date":"2025-06-06T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107937\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:46:10","slug":"mike-florio-fully-expects-steelers-to-trade-for-wr-allen-lazard-by-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/107937\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Florio ‘Fully Expects’ Steelers To Trade For WR Allen Lazard By Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to reports on Thursday<\/a>, Aaron Rodgers is expected to travel to Pittsburgh on Friday and sign a contract to play for the 2025 season. For obvious reasons, that\u2019s a relief for Steelers fans, with the franchise waiting on the veteran quarterback for most of the offseason. With Rodgers potentially in town, there might be one more name to keep in mind, and that\u2019s WR Allen Lazard.<\/p>\n

Speaking Thursday after the reports came out, Mike Florio expects Lazard to be in Pittsburgh sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut me down for this,\u201d Florio said, in a video posted to Pro Football Talk\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>. \u201cI fully expect, sooner than later, and no later than training camp, the Steelers will trade for Jets\u2019 receiver Allen Lazard. Been waiting for that to happen\u2026 They\u2019ve been waiting to know what Rodgers is going to do. And Lazard, I think, is the perfect complement\u2026 The question becomes, what do the Jets want?\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Florio has mentioned Lazard potentially becoming a Steeler. In the beginning of May, just after George Pickens was traded, Florio mentioned<\/a> Lazard as a player who could be in play for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Where Rodgers goes, Lazard follows, and the two usually have success. Lazard entered the league with the Green Bay Packers in 2018. He played with Rodgers until he left for the Jets before the 2023 season. During those five years with Rodgers in Green Bay, Lazard posted 2,236 yards on 169 receptions, scoring 20 times in the process. Lazard wasn\u2019t ever the main target there. Still, he did post over 400 receiving yards each year from 2019 to 2022 and finished with 788 in that final year.<\/p>\n

Then, Allen Lazard ended up joining Rodgers in New York. Those two seasons are a good example as to how he fares with and without his favorite quarterback. In 2023, the year Rodgers suffered his Achilles injury, Lazard had 23 receptions for 311 yards with one touchdown. Even though Rodgers wasn\u2019t lighting up the stat sheet in 2024, Lazard improved with him throwing the ball. That year, he had 37 receptions for 530 yards while scoring six times.<\/p>\n

A move like this would make sense as the Steelers don\u2019t have a ton a receiving depth. Lazard\u2019s now going to be 30 years old and has only one season in his career with more than 600 receiving yards. The Steelers shouldn\u2019t trade for him expecting him to step into the WR2 role. They also are showing interest in other receivers, including Gabe Davis, who visited the facility Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Allen Lazard would likely come cheap. If the Steelers aren\u2019t expecting him to be their WR2, things could work out. With Rodgers entering a new offense with new teammates, having a familiar face around, like Lazard, could help ease that transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports on Thursday, Aaron Rodgers is expected to travel to Pittsburgh on Friday and sign a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1586,2317,7,5745,27331],"class_list":{"0":"post-107937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-allen-lazard","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-mike-florio","12":"tag-nbc-pro-football-talk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114635078852415636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107937","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=107937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}