{"id":63358,"date":"2025-05-19T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/63358\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:12:10","slug":"florio-predicts-aaron-rodgers-signs-with-steelers-ahead-of-voluntary-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/63358\/","title":{"rendered":"Florio Predicts Aaron Rodgers Signs With Steelers Ahead Of Voluntary OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are more than halfway through May, and QB Aaron Rodgers is still a free agent. Many still expect that the Pittsburgh Steelers will sign him to a contract. You can include insider Mark Kaboly among that group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the next big question is, when could that happen? Is Rodgers going to wait until training camp? Or will he sign earlier to be involved in some of the Steelers\u2019 offseason activities, like Ben Roethlisberger thinks he should<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Pro Football Talk\u2019s Mike Florio thinks Rodgers will be signing soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Steelers only have six OTA days before the mandatory minicamp,\u201d Florio said Monday on Pro Football Talk<\/a>. \u201cI think he will be there next Tuesday, May 27, when the OTAs, Phase 3, begins. That\u2019s nine practices before training camp. That\u2019s enough time to get him properly ensconced. I think he\u2019s going to, I don\u2019t know this, but I think there\u2019s going to be a press conference this week. And he\u2019ll be there with the team next Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

While no one should begrudge Aaron Rodgers for taking care of personal business, the sooner he gets into Pittsburgh, the better it will be for the whole team. Offseason practices are important for the players to get communication down and build relationships. These practices are also important for new players to learn the schemes.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Steelers should want Aaron Rodgers in their building as soon as possible. And it\u2019s the same reason that former Steelers QB Charlie Batch thinks that QB Mason Rudolph will be in a better situation the longer Rodgers waits to sign<\/a>. Rudolph will be the beneficiary of all that practice time the longer Rodgers takes to sign.<\/p>\n

However, we saw how well that worked out for former Steelers QB Justin Fields last season. When Russell Wilson suffered his injury on the eve of training camp, Fields received the bulk of the practice reps and showed improvement. Yet, the moment Wilson was healthy, he started splitting reps with Fields, and Tomlin named him the Week 1 starter. Then he suffered another injury, pressing Fields into service for the first six weeks of the season.<\/p>\n

I think we all would love to not relive the quarterback chaos of 2024. And at this point, the best way for that to happen is either for Aaron Rodgers to sign with the Steelers very soon, or not to sign at all. The longer this continues, the more opportunities there will be for problems to arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are more than halfway through May, and QB Aaron Rodgers is still a free agent. Many still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1586,7,5745,57,4070],"class_list":{"0":"post-63358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-florio","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pro-football-talk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114536798293954660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358","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=63358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}