{"id":7782,"date":"2025-04-28T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7782\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:41:11","slug":"canty-steelers-did-nothing-in-draft-to-make-themselves-more-attractive-to-aaron-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7782\/","title":{"rendered":"Canty: Steelers Did ‘Nothing’ In Draft To Make Themselves More Attractive To Aaron Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thought there was a chance the Steelers would take a quarterback in the first round of the draft. They didn\u2019t, and they didn\u2019t feel the need to take one in the next four rounds either. It wasn\u2019t until Round 6 that the Steelers landed Will Howard. The Ohio State product is a nice player, and certainly gives the Steelers good value in the sixth round. Yet, if anything can be taken away from the Steelers\u2019 draft, it shows that they still plan on bringing in<\/a> Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Chris Canty is a little worried about that. He thinks Rodgers won\u2019t be signing anytime soon, and also wonders what exactly the Steelers did to make themselves more attractive to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Aaron Rodgers is in a hurry to commit to playing football if the Pittsburgh Steelers are his only destination,\u201d Canty said Monday on ESPN\u2019s Unsportsmanlike<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen in the short-term, I just don\u2019t see that. If you\u2019re looking at it from Rodgers\u2019 perspective, what did Pittsburgh do over the weekend to make it a more attractive situation to go play there? Absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Steelers clearly didn\u2019t think they\u2019d find their starting QB for 2025 in the draft. So, it makes sense to wonder whether any of their actions were aimed at luring Rodgers to sign with them. Even considering that, it\u2019s hard to agree with Canty here.<\/p>\n

Derrick Harmon doesn\u2019t play on the offensive side of the ball, but his addition is going to help keep the ball in Rodgers\u2019 hands (or Mason Rudolph\u2019s) more often. And just two rounds after drafting Harmon the Steelers landed Kaleb Johnson, who ran for 1,537 yards last season in arguably the most competitive conference in college football. Adding Johnson immediately improves the run game. It doesn\u2019t really make sense to act as if the Steelers did nothing that would make them more attractive to the 41-year-old Rodgers.<\/p>\n

Considering Aaron Rodgers\u2019 age, they don\u2019t need to, either. They believe he will come to town<\/a> regardless. Even if he doesn\u2019t, what\u2019s the point of acquiring assets to appease him? The Steelers would be happy to have Rodgers in 2025. But that doesn\u2019t mean they need to do the same thing the Jets did over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

Now, Canty is right to wonder about Rodgers\u2019 commitments to playing in 2025. He didn\u2019t sound especially enthusiastic while speaking to Pat McAfee the week prior to the draft. There\u2019s plenty of time for things to change, but that is a legitimate concern.<\/p>\n

For now, the Steelers at least have insurance. Mason Rudolph knows the organization well, and having Will Howard in the room<\/a> adds some extra promise. They\u2019d like Rodgers more than those two, but they\u2019re also not going to be bending over backwards, and they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many thought there was a chance the Steelers would take a quarterback in the first round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1586,5206,12,7,5207],"class_list":{"0":"post-7782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-chris-canty","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-unsportsmanlike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114417296157983179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}