{"id":299523,"date":"2025-11-18T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:38:08","slug":"steelers-aaron-rodgers-doesnt-need-surgery-on-wrist-status-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299523\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; Aaron Rodgers doesn&#8217;t need surgery on wrist, status TBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 18, 2025, 12:14 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"debcd592-8d53-71f1-fc15-5c8b8ef9df6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-steelers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"5fbab03e-2816-55ab-ae10-83b132803d9e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/8439\/aaron-rodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> will not need surgery to repair a fracture to his left, non-throwing wrist, coach Mike Tomin announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really, it&#8217;s just about bracing and securing it for his comfort and safety. And then, it&#8217;s about how functional he is,&#8221; Tomlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The coach said Friday will be a key day in determining Rodgers&#8217; status for Sunday&#8217;s game at the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see where the week leads us and we&#8217;ll take it day by day,&#8221; Tomlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers sat out the second half of the Steelers&#8217; 34-12 victory over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"75b8623b-8926-b411-0476-3d3602b78523\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> after sustaining the injury late in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin said Monday that Rodgers wanted to return to the game.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"779f3cff-73eb-dcb6-1327-48a95fa9d491\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3116407\/mason-rudolph\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Rudolph<\/a> took over at quarterback with Rodgers sidelined and would start against the Bears if the Steelers determine Rodgers is unable to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 18, 2025, 12:14 PM ET Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will not need surgery to repair a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-299523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}