{"id":871068,"date":"2026-04-21T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:04:15","slug":"steelers-suddenly-linked-to-russell-wilson-again-after-aaron-rodgers-news-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871068\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers suddenly linked to Russell Wilson again after Aaron Rodgers news surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the uncertainty about what Aaron Rodgers will do in the future, as reports now indicate he still hasn&#8217;t given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/pittsburgh-steelers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> a response, some are looking at what the organization might do next. There&#8217;s reason to believe that could impact former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> legend Russell Wilson, who remains on the free-agent market.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, similar to Rodgers in the regard that both of them used to be very, very good players and aren&#8217;t what they once were, is below Rodgers in terms of all-time status, as the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a>, and Steelers quarterback is one of the greatest ever, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Wilson still isn&#8217;t a respectable player and somebody who could fit in for what the Steelers are looking to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was already on the roster, which didn&#8217;t exactly work out, but some believe that it could be better this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the question is where Wilson could reasonably sign right now, Pittsburgh is the cleanest answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot because the Steelers are definitely choosing Wilson, but because Rodgers\u2019 unresolved status keeps that door cracked open. Rooney\u2019s public timeline matters here: if the Steelers truly want clarity before the draft, then every other veteran option sits behind that decision,\u201d Erik Anderson of Heavy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/free-agency-news-russell-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to say in a sense that Wilson would be an ideal candidate for a team like the Steelers right now. He&#8217;s still a proven veteran and well respected, but if Pittsburgh has other options, which it does with Will Howard, it&#8217;s probably better to go in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the uncertainty about what Aaron Rodgers will do in the future, as reports now indicate he still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-871068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","13":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116441903708241893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871068","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=871068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}