Aaron Rodgers will not play Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who will turn to Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin told CBS in a pregame interview that Rodgers “fought his tail off” to play against Chicago, adding that it was the “prudent” decision to sit the veteran quarterback.<\/p>\n
“He fought his tail off all week,” Tomlin told CBS. “That’s the prudent play to make for us as a collective. We’ll let Mason start; he’s absorbed most of the reps this week.”<\/p>\n
Rodgers had been listed as questionable because of a fractured left wrist. The four-time MVP was a partial practice participant Thursday and Friday after missing Wednesday’s practice.<\/p>\n
Rodgers arrived at Soldier Field just before 9 a.m. Sunday morning and took a lap around the field, wearing a stabilizer on his wrist.<\/p>\n
Rudolph will be backed up by 2025 sixth-round pick Will Howard, who was activated from injured reserve a week ago.<\/p>\n
Rudolph last started in Week 17 a year ago for the Tennessee Titans; he was 1-4 as their starter. Rudolph also started four games for the Steelers in 2023, including three straight wins to close the season and earn a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers will not play Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who will turn to Mason Rudolph as their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[85420,7,85421,6,520,57,75453,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-548301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers-sports-football-player-player-statscom-213957","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mason-rudolph-sports-football-player-player-statscom-823220","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-356","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115599932734813116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548301","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=548301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}