Rodgers, a four-time Most Valuable Player and 10-time Pro Bowler who is the active leader in a smorgasbord of passing categories with 66,274 career yards, 527 touchdowns, a 1.4 interception percentage and a 102.2 passer rating, hasn’t gone to the Super Bowl since the 2010 campaign — a game he won against the Steelers.<\/p>\n
Donning black and gold for the first time last season, Rodgers led Pittsburgh to the playoffs but went out in a way that would have been anything but fitting for one of the most talented passers in NFL history.<\/p>\n
He threw for just 146 yards with a 51.5 completion percentage in a loss to the Houston Texans, and tossed a pick six in what could have been his last pass attempt as a professional.<\/p>\n
Rodgers instead returned to the Steelers, reunited with his old head coach Mike McCarthy and buoyed by an influx of talent to work with. Pittsburgh traded for\u00a0Michael Pittman<\/a> and added two more pass catchers through the draft, Germie Bernard<\/a> and Kaden Wetjen<\/a>. In an effort to improve upon a defense that allowed the seventh-most yards in 2025, the Steelers also brought in defensive backs Rayshawn Jenkins<\/a>, Jaquan Brisker<\/a> and Jamel Dean<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dean should feel right at home trying to win a ring with the added benefit of potentially sending an all-time great out on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was in his second year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when Tom Brady came to town and helped elevate them to Super Bowl champions.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a similar feeling,\u201d Dean said. \u201cAaron\u2019s always been one of the top quarterbacks that I praise. \u2026 There\u2019s a lot of confidence in him knowing that he\u2019s still got it.\u201d<\/p>\n Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl LV victory didn’t wind up being the end for Brady. He played for two more years, falling short each time.<\/p>\n By every indication, this season will be Rodgers’ last ride — however it ends.<\/p>\n Dean, who said he believes Pittsburgh has all the right pieces, is envisioning the same conclusion as Highsmith and others.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would be nice to send him out on a good note knowing that he had a legendary career,\u201d the cornerback said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodgers, a four-time Most Valuable Player and 10-time Pro Bowler who is the active leader in a smorgasbord…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7144,120504,6255,96928,3,349,6257,1321,99],"class_list":["post-838917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-alex-highsmith","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-jamel-dean","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838917","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=838917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}