{"id":599360,"date":"2026-04-22T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599360\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:07:10","slug":"art-rooney-ii-aaron-rodgers-told-us-his-time-frame-on-decision-i-think-well-know-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/599360\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Rooney II: Aaron Rodgers told us his time frame on decision, I think we&#8217;ll know soon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers owner Art Rooney II said last month that he expected to know quarterback Aaron Rodgers\u2019s plans for the 2026 season by <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/art-rooney-ii-expects-to-know-whether-aaron-rodgers-will-return-before-the-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the start of the draft<\/a>, but all indications out of Pittsburgh this week have been that Rodgers will be taking a little longer before making up his mind. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Rooney confirmed that Rodgers has not informed the team of his decision about playing this year and declined to offer any details about when a final answer might be coming beyond saying that it was \u201cwarm\u201d to say that the team would expect to have more clarity by the time OTAs start on May 18. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I could tell you we\u2019re at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DVERADIO\/status\/2046651581207064621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the end of the discussion<\/a>, but we\u2019re still talking to Aaron and he\u2019s still deciding what he wants to do,\u201d Rooney said on WDVE. \u201cI think we\u2019re close. He\u2019s kind of told us his time frame and what he\u2019s going to be up to over the next couple of weeks. I think we\u2019ll have an answer soon, let\u2019s put it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy said on Tuesday that he doesn\u2019t think <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/mike-mccarthy-on-aaron-rodgers-i-have-confidence-in-where-he-would-be-the-day-he-would-arrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it will take long<\/a> for Rodgers to be up to speed if he does decide to play. Until then, it will be Will Howard and Mason Rudolph at quarterback during Pittsburgh\u2019s offseason program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers owner Art Rooney II said last month that he expected to know quarterback Aaron Rodgers\u2019s plans for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-599360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599360","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=599360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}