{"id":125920,"date":"2025-09-07T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125920\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:57:08","slug":"steelers-vs-jets-live-updates-highlights-from-aaron-rodgers-return-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125920\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers vs. Jets: Live updates, highlights from Aaron Rodgers’ return to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Sunday of the 2025 NFL season opens with an early window matchup with some extra significance.<\/p>\n

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With Justin Fields<\/a> and the New York Jets<\/a> hosting Aaron Rodgers<\/a> and the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>, it is the first season opener in NFL history between starting quarterbacks who swapped teams they started for the previous season.<\/p>\n

Rodgers makes his Steelers debut after going 6-12 as a starter for the Jets, while Fields debuts for New York after finishing 4-2 as Pittsburgh’s QB1.<\/p>\n

Those two aren’t the only new faces making their team debut as DK Metcalf<\/a> begins his Pittsburgh tenure and the Jets kick off the Aaron Glenn era.<\/p>\n

More recent history slightly favors New York: the Jets are 6-5 in their past 11 regular-season meetings vs. Pittsburgh, though 7-19 all-time and they’ve never beaten the Steelers by more than seven points. But Week 1 trends loom for the Jets, who have dropped seven of their past nine openers, while the Steelers are 6-2-1 in that span.<\/p>\n

Can Fields and first-year head coach Glenn reset New York’s fortunes, or will Rodgers, Metcalf and T.J. Watt<\/a> set the tone in Pittsburgh?<\/p>\n

Follow along for live updates, highlights and the biggest moments from New York.<\/p>\n

ESPN Research contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

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