{"id":553610,"date":"2026-03-30T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553610\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:59:07","slug":"art-rooney-ii-expects-to-know-whether-aaron-rodgers-will-return-before-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553610\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Rooney II expects to know whether Aaron Rodgers will return &#8220;before the draft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Aaron Rodgers be back with the Steelers in 2026? <\/p>\n<p>The door still seems to be wide open for the 42-year-old quarterback, who helped lead Pittsburgh to the postseason in 2025 and now would be reuniting with his former head coach, Mike McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a matter of Rodgers letting the Steelers know his plans.<\/p>\n<p>To that point, team owner Art Rooney II said on Sunday that he\u2019s expecting to have Rodgers\u2019 answer before the draft begins \u2014 in Pittsburgh \u2014 on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2026\/03\/29\/nfl-steelers-aaron-rodgers-draft-art-rooney\/stories\/202603290123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I still expect that<\/a>,\u201d Rooney told Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Sunday at the annual league meeting in Arizona. \u201cI expect we\u2019ll get an answer before the draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I talked to him and Omar [Khan] talked to him, he told us he wasn\u2019t going to take as long this year as he did last year [to make a decision],\u201d Rooney added. \u201cI\u2019m not 100 percent sure what that means, but I expect something before the draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Dulac, the Steelers believe Rodgers\u2019 decision will come down to retirement or returning to Pittsburgh for another season.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers completed 65.7 percent of his passes for 3,322 yards with 24 touchdowns and seven interceptions for the Steelers, helping the club go 10-7 and win the AFC North. But the postseason loss to the Texans was ugly, with Rodgers finishing the contest 17-of-33 for 146 yards with one interception. He also took four sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh currently has Mason Rudolph and Will Howard on their roster at quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Aaron Rodgers be back with the Steelers in 2026? The door still seems to be wide open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-553610","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\/553610","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=553610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}