{"id":559290,"date":"2025-11-27T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/559290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:25:12","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-aaron-rodgers-full-participant-in-practice-ahead-of-bills-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/559290\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers full participant in practice ahead of Bills game"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — For the first time since fracturing his left wrist Nov. 16, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers<\/a> was a full participant in practice.<\/p>\n

After missing his second Wednesday practice in a row, the 41-year-old quarterback was on the field for a frigid Thanksgiving practice, going through his normal workload with his wrist in a black stabilizer as snow flurries fell at the Steelers\u2019 facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to see how I feel after [Thursday],\u201d Rodgers said Wednesday regarding the practice plans for this week. \u201cI\u2019m going to go [Thursday] and get casted up and then see how I respond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wide receiver DK Metcalf<\/a>, who injured his ankle in the loss to the Chicago Bears<\/a>, also returned to practice Thursday after missing Wednesday, along with defensive tackle Cameron Heyward<\/a> (ankle) and edge rusher Alex Highsmith<\/a> (pectoral).<\/p>\n

Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday he was entering the week with \u201cgreat optimism\u201d regarding his quarterback\u2019s availability for Sunday\u2019s game against the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, and Rodgers echoed that sentiment Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t able to go last week, so I\u2019m hoping for a different outcome this week,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n

Rodgers said the biggest difference for his wrist between sitting out against the Bears on Nov. 23 and potentially playing against the Bills a week later is \u201ctime for the healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had more days for the callous to form and more healing, especially Monday and Tuesday just doing rehab,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201c[Wednesday] I did a little bit more. [Thursday] I\u2019ll do a little bit more and see where I\u2019m at come Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if it was his understanding that he needed a doctor\u2019s clearance to play Sunday, Rodgers said he didn\u2019t believe that was the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019ve never had that understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH — For the first time since fracturing his left wrist Nov. 16, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[85420,7,6,520,57,75453,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-559290","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-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-356","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559290","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=559290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}