{"id":110169,"date":"2025-06-07T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110169\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T03:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:06:17","slug":"beat-writer-thinks-aaron-rodgers-will-lead-steelers-to-double-digit-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110169\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Writer Thinks Aaron Rodgers Will Lead Steelers To Double-Digit Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to terms with QB Aaron Rodgers, and his addition could elevate the team\u2019s ceiling. Appearing on 93.7 The Fan<\/a>, Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said he believes the Steelers will win double-digit games with Rodgers, and he could see the team winning up to 12 games in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey won 10 games with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields as their quarterback last year. I think he\u2019s at least worth one more win, maybe two. So I think that this is now maybe an 11-win team, something along those lines. I don\u2019t know that they\u2019re good enough to unseat the Ravens, I don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re good enough to be the second wild card in this division, \u2019cause I think the Bengals, eventually they gotta figure it too,\u201d Fittipaldo said. \u201cSo it\u2019s a really tough conference and it\u2019s a really tough division, but I think they\u2019re now squarely a 10, if not 11-win team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers may not still be playing at an MVP level, but there\u2019s little argument to be had that he\u2019s an upgrade over what the Steelers have had recently at quarterback. While Wilson got off to a strong start last season after taking over in Week 7, the Steelers faded down the stretch and Wilson struggled during their five-game losing streak to end the season. Rodgers\u2019 ability to use the middle of the field and his football IQ can help him do better than Wilson did last year.<\/p>\n

The Steelers\u2019 schedule is difficult, as is the AFC North, but if they do get to 10 wins, they should be a playoff team. Eleven or 12 wins would give them a real chance to win the division. The Steelers don\u2019t want to waste a season with Cameron Heyward and T.J. Watt not getting any younger, and the team is always looking to win now. Rodgers gives them a chance to compete and look to make some noise in the playoffs, so even though he\u2019s a bridge quarterback, it was a move the Steelers felt was worth making.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll look good in making it if Rodgers can get them to that 10-win threshold that Fittipaldo predicts and especially if they can get a win in the postseason. There\u2019s been a lot of negativity around whether Rodgers will work in Pittsburgh coming from the national media<\/a>, but looking at the Steelers\u2019 recent quarterback situations, it\u2019s easy to see why they feel Rodgers can be an upgrade and why they signed him. After they didn\u2019t re-sign Justin Fields, they felt he was the best option for them right now, and getting to 10 wins would help prove that he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to terms with QB Aaron Rodgers, and his addition could elevate the team\u2019s ceiling.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[8740,1586,7,7827],"class_list":{"0":"post-110169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-93-7-the-fan","9":"tag-aaron-rodgers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ray-fittipaldo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114639876091314631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110169","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=110169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}