{"id":272473,"date":"2026-08-26T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:02:07","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-2026-season-preview-guide-aaron-rodgers-returns-for-final-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272473\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 season preview guide: Aaron Rodgers returns for final NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-72dd2f\" class=\"body-graf\">With the departure of Mike Tomlin after 19 seasons, the Steelers are hoping to recreate some magic of yesteryear, hiring former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy. He will be reunited with his former Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in what is allegedly Rodgers\u2019 final season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-32ac3e\" class=\"body-graf\">The season kicks off on Wednesday, September 9, with the New England Patriots facing the Seattle Seahawks in a Super Bowl LX rematch. Live coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/asset\/sports\/patriots-vs.-seahawks\/18c38bc3-c037-3324-a122-e2f8b9cf7bba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC and Peacock<\/a>. And visit<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> NBC Sports<\/a> for full NFL coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the departure of Mike Tomlin after 19 seasons, the Steelers are hoping to recreate some magic of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-272473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272473","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=272473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}