{"id":166745,"date":"2025-06-29T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166745\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:42:11","slug":"aaron-rodgers-evaluates-pat-freiermuth-pittsburgh-steelers-tight-end-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166745\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers evaluates Pat Freiermuth, Pittsburgh Steelers tight end room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Rodgers<\/a> is ready to do some big things with Pat Freiermuth<\/a> and the Pittsburgh Steelers tight ends when the 2025 season kicks off this fall. During his appearance on The Pat McAfee Show earlier this week, Rodgers shared his thoughts on the Steelers tight ends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like the tight end room,\u201d Aaron Rodgers told Pat McAfee<\/a>. \u201cPat Freiermuth is my locker roommate now, which is great because he was the one that was DMing me the most on Instagram. Pat is a super-talented guy. He can do a lot of different things. He can block at the point of attack, he can split out and run routes, he can run choice routes, he can run seam routes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you got big Darnell [Washington<\/a>], who\u2019s an on-the-ball tight end, like a true wide tight end. He reminds me of Marcedes [Lewis]<\/a>. Size, first and foremost, because he\u2019s 6\u20198\u201d and he\u2019s pushing (300 pounds). But you would think big guy, he\u2019s that big, he can\u2019t run. The last play of the entire minicamp, he caught a seam down the middle against cover 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers continued, \u201cI think Connor Heyward<\/a>, Cam [Heyward]\u2019s little brother, is a super-talented guy. He\u2019s like a Swiss Army knife. He can do it all. He can block, he can move, he can slide across the formation, he can catch the ball moving, he can run choice routes. So I really like that room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pat Freiermuth compares Aaron Rodgers to Steelers legend<\/p>\n

Pat Freiermuth had a solid season for the Steelers in 2024. In 17 games with 11 starts, Freiermuth caught 65 passes for 653 yards and seven touchdowns. <\/p>\n

Darnell Washington played in all 17 games for the Steelers last season and recorded 19 catches for 200 yards and one touchdown. Connor Heyward caught six passes for 40 yards and one TD in 17 games last year. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month Freiermuth shared his thoughts on Aaron Rodgers joining the Steelers. \u201cI think he\u2019s similar to Ben [Roethlisberger<\/a>] in a way where like he\u2019s gonna trust you to where you\u2019re gonna be, and he\u2019s gonna throw you open,\u201d\u00a0Freiermuth said<\/a>\u00a0on the latest episode of Not Just Football with Cam Heyward. \u201cAaron, I can see on film where he\u2019s expecting you to be somewhere, and if he trusts you, he\u2019s gonna throw it to that spot and go let you make a play. I think that is what I\u2019ve noticed a lot on film.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers is ready to do some big things with Pat Freiermuth and the Pittsburgh Steelers tight ends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[26260,37253,37254,7,6,2123,37255,520,57,13583,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-166745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers-02-pleasant-valley","9":"tag-connor-heyward-17-peachtree-ridge","10":"tag-darnell-washington-20-desert-pines","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pat-freiermuth-18-brooks-school","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","19":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166745","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=166745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}