{"id":155345,"date":"2025-06-24T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/155345\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:03:09","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-aaron-rodgers-expects-to-retire-after-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/155345\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; Aaron Rodgers expects to retire after 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 24 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Pittsburgh_Steelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pittsburgh Steelers\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Aaron_Rodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aaron Rodgers\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> is &#8220;pretty sure&#8221; 2025 will be his final NFL season, he announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ntvVHwrscuY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announcement during an appearance<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Pat_McAfee\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pat McAfee\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pat McAfee<\/a> Show. The four-time NFL MVP signed a one-year, $13.76 million deal with the Steelers earlier this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty sure this is it,&#8221; Rodgers said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we just did a one-year deal. The Steelers didn&#8217;t need to put any extra years on that or anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was really about finishing with a lot of fun and love and peace for the career that I&#8217;ve had.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers completed 63% of his throws for 3,897 yards, 28 scores and 11 interceptions over 17 starts last season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/New-York-Jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Jets\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Jets<\/a>. He was released in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve played 20 freaking years,&#8221; Rodgers said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long run and I&#8217;ve enjoyed it. What better place to finish than one of the cornerstone franchises of the NFL, with [coach] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Mike_Tomlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mike Tomlin\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> and a great group of leadership and great guys in a city that expects you to win.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, 41, is the NFL&#8217;s active leader in completions (5,369), attempts (8,245), passing yards (62,952) and touchdown passes (503). His 102.6 quarterback rating and 1.4% interception ratio are the best marks in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>He is just 1,136 yards behind Steelers legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Ben_Roethlisberger\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ben Roethlisberger\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Roethlisberger<\/a> for fifth place in career passing yards. Rodgers sits five touchdown passes behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Green_Bay_Packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Green Bay Packers\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Brett_Favre\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brett Favre\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brett Favre<\/a>, who ranks fourth on the career passing touchdown list. He needs 37 passing scores to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Peyton_Manning\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peyton Manning\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peyton Manning<\/a> for third in NFL history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 24 (UPI) &#8212; Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is &#8220;pretty sure&#8221; 2025 will be his final NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,6594,6461,7,345,1255,255,6,955,8083,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-155345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-ben-roethlisberger","10":"tag-brett-favre","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-mike-tomlin","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pat-mcafee","17":"tag-peyton-manning","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","20":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","21":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114739663186659241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155345","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=155345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}