{"id":831783,"date":"2026-03-24T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:15:19","slug":"new-steelers-wideout-has-yet-to-speak-to-aaron-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/831783\/","title":{"rendered":"New Steelers wideout has yet to speak to Aaron Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2026, 4:40 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" data-autotag=\"c4d4185f-a327-423a-aa54-67a40f9dee05\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> recently signed former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last year for the Colts, Pittman had 784 yards receiving and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He played a huge part in the Colts resurgence on offense last season, and he will play a vital role in helping the Steelers&#8217; offense this coming season, but under which quarterback?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pittman admitted the other day that he has yet to chat with future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rodgers has yet to contact his new offensive weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know nothing. I haven&#8217;t talked to Aaron,&#8221; Pittman said during an appearance on FanDuel TV&#8217;s Up and Adams Show with Kay Adams. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to give him space because Aaron&#8217;s a guy, he likes his space, he likes to get refreshed. I didn&#8217;t want to just get signed and then blow him up and be like, &#8216;Hey Aaron, what&#8217;s the deal?&#8217; But just give him time. Him and his wife, they&#8217;ve got to handle some things and then he will decide if he wants to come back or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Pittman, however, thinks that Rodgers will be the Steelers&#8217; quarterback next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;But the fact that he&#8217;s still out doing flag football stuff and all that\u2026 I think that he wants to play. Just knowing Aaron prior to this, I just think he&#8217;s gonna try and play as long as he can,\u201d Pittman added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 24, 2026, 4:40 p.m. ET The Pittsburgh Steelers recently signed former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,99115,99116,96675,95882,96013,95896,95888,95899,96720,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-831783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfltouchdown","16":"tag-sstsntouchdown","17":"tag-tagaaron-rodgers","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagmichael-pittman-jr","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagpittsburgh-steelers","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116286464026115473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831783","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=831783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}