Aaron Rodgers is back in Pittsburgh.
The longtime NFL star quarterback has agreed to a new deal with the Steelers. He'll run it back with Mike McCarthy, hired as Pittsburgh's new head coach this offseason, for the 2026 regular season and perhaps beyond.
On Monday morning, Rodgers reported to Pittsburgh.
"Aaron Rodgers is in the Steelers facility this morning. He was one of the first guys in the building before 7am, left for about 45 minutes with a staffer and returned around 7:45. Steelers will be on the practice field for their first OTA practice at 11am," Brooke Pryor of ESPN reported.
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Rodgers, who has said that he wants to "disappear" from public life once he retires, has sure made a lot of media appearances in recent years.
Specifically, Rodgers has made weekly appearances on "The Pat McAfee Show." But questions are swirling about his future on the program.
What will Rodgers do in 2026?
It'll be interesting to see if McCarthy manages things differently than Tomlin did.
"Rodgers’ 2024-25 season with the New York Jets became a borderline soap opera based on what he said on McAfee each week. Most notably, Rodgers used McAfee to air his grievances over what he claimed to be a hit piece seeded by linebacker Haason Reddick’s agent in The Athletic about the Jets’ locker room culture. There was never any clear-cut evidence that it was Reddick’s agent who leaked to The Athletic, but the incident is certainly one the Jets would’ve liked to keep in-house regardless of where the leak came from, and the team especially would’ve preferred its star quarterback not go on national TV and breathe oxygen into the report," Awful Announcing reported.
"No doubt, that type of scenario is something the Steelers were eager to avoid entering last season. What remains to be seen is whether Rodgers will want to hop back into the McAfee orbit in 2026-27. Would McCarthy allow for it? Would the Steelers organization allow for it?"
It's going to be fascinating to watch.
We'll likely learn the answers soon, from either McAfee or Rodgers.
