{"id":188153,"date":"2026-05-09T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188153\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:15:24","slug":"steelers-gm-admits-he-has-no-idea-where-aaron-rodgers-is-ahead-of-reported-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188153\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers GM admits he has no idea where Aaron Rodgers is ahead of reported meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/PIT\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> have been waiting all offseason for <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/419780\/aaron-rodgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> to make a decision about his future and it looks like they might have to wait a little bit longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were reports on Thursday that Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/aaron-rodgers-steelers-free-agent-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">would fly into Pittsburgh on Friday<\/a> to potentially work out a new contract with the team, but as of Friday morning, the QB still hadn&#8217;t arrived. Not only that, Steelers general manager Omar Khan has admitted he has no idea where Rodgers is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouBetterYouBet\/status\/2052766852485431747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview on Westwood One&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;You Better, You Bet,&#8221; Khan was asked whether Rodgers would be in town this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where, specifically, Aaron is,&#8221; Khan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OK, so that&#8217;s not great. Of course, that could mean that Rodgers is on his way to Pittsburgh, but Khan doesn&#8217;t know where he&#8217;s coming from. It could also mean that Khan actually has no idea where Rodgers is or if he&#8217;s going to show up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, Khan said he&#8217;s had some &#8220;good conversations&#8221; with Rodgers this offseason, after being asked whether the four-time MVP would be returning as the Steelers&#8217; quarterback.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you that Aaron and I, and Coach [Mike McCarthy] and Aaron and Aaron&#8217;s representatives,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had some good conversations since the season ended and since Mike got hired. It&#8217;s been positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khan then circled back to where Rodgers is currently located and, once again, admitted he had no idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But yeah, I don&#8217;t know where he is at this moment,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;We continue to have conversations and they&#8217;re positive and we had a good experience with him last year, and I think he would probably echo the same thing. Conversations continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has shown throughout his career that he marches to the beat of his own drum, which might explain why the Steelers are currently in the dark about his whereabouts. <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL<\/a> Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2052385506441244948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported on Thursday<\/a> that Rodgers would be in Pittsburgh this weekend, but he also noted that a deal might not get done, so there is a chance nothing gets resolved over the next 48 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s imminent that he&#8217;s going to sign this weekend,&#8221; Rapoport said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2052722919923384501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">during an interview on Good Morning Football<\/a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s still no deal; they still have to discuss things. When all is said and done, the expectation is that Rodgers is back with the Steelers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rapoport also added <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2052381978066858452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">that the two sides will have<\/a> &#8220;further discussions&#8221; to reach a deal. If the two sides are having &#8220;further discussions&#8221; about a contract, it could mean Rodgers wants to make more than the Steelers are offering. Last season, Rodgers gave the Steelers a discount by signing a one-year deal worth just $13.65 million. This year, the Steelers used the unrestricted free-agent tender, which guarantees him a 10% raise to $15 million for 2026, but he might want more than that, and if so, that could slow down the negotiation process. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers originally hoped Rodgers would sign a new deal by the start of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL Draft<\/a>, but that didn&#8217;t happen. Now, the Steelers are hoping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/aaron-rodgers-steelers-timeline-updates-latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">get him under contract before OTAs start on May 18<\/a>. The fact that he&#8217;s expected to be in Pittsburgh this weekend could help speed up that process, but if no one in the organization knows where he is, then it&#8217;s going to be tough to get a deal done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rodgers didn&#8217;t show up until mandatory minicamp in June. He could end up in Pittsburgh this weekend, but if he makes the Steelers wait until minicamp again, he won&#8217;t be around until June 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have been waiting all offseason for Aaron Rodgers to make a decision about his future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,27393,83929,1418,43210,73,75,74,1833,1829],"class_list":["post-188153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-general-manager","tag-negotiations","tag-nfl","tag-omar-khan","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}