{"id":266464,"date":"2025-11-06T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266464\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:11:07","slug":"marquez-valdes-scantling-say-aaron-rodgers-is-the-reason-he-signed-with-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266464\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquez Valdes-Scantling say Aaron Rodgers &#8220;is the reason&#8221; he signed with Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long and winding road of Marquez Valdes-Scantling\u2019s NFL journey has finally brought him back to Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Now a member of the Steelers\u2019 practice squad, Valdes-Scantling told reporters on Wednesday that he picked his latest team for one reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy next to me got me here,\u201d Valdes-Scantling said, referring to Rodgers, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN.com. \u201cYou\u2019ve been trying to get me around since we left Green Bay. . . . <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46862093\/steelers-marquez-valdes-scantling-aaron-rodgers-happy-reunion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He is the reason<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They spent four years together in Green Bay, from 2018 through 2021. Since then, Valdes-Scantling has been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNj6spCtUE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">everywhere, man<\/a>, from Kansas City to Buffalo to New Orleans to Seattle to San Francisco to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the best that ever played this game, man,\u201d Valdes-Scantling said. \u201cSo it\u2019s pretty easy when you got that guy under center and just being on the same page. We built a great rapport over the four years that we got to play together, and he\u2019s one of my closest friends in this NFL thing that I\u2019ve ever made. He\u2019s taught me a lot, so just being able to be around him again and get some more knowledge four years later, I\u2019m excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feeling is mutual. \u201cI love MVS,\u201d Rodgers said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first friends-and-former-teammate signing the Steelers have made since Rodgers arrived in June. That approach didn\u2019t work very well for the Jets, especially when they wasted a third-round pick for a half-season with Davante Adams\/Aaron Rodgers reunion that did nothing to help the team win enough football games.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers still have plenty of questions in their receiving corps beyond DK Metcalf, who has 29 catches in eight games. Calvin Austin III has 19, Roman Wilson has nine, Ben Skowronek has two.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Valdes-Scantling will be activated for Sunday night\u2019s game at the Chargers. If Rodgers has a say in the matter, he\u2019ll want MVS to be among the options available to him in Week 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long and winding road of Marquez Valdes-Scantling\u2019s NFL journey has finally brought him back to Aaron Rodgers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-266464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}