The Pittsburgh Steelers remain patient with free agent QB Aaron Rodgers as they await for him to make a decision, but with OTAs beginning next week, the Steelers may want an answer soon. Leaving the owners meetings today, Steelers team owner Art Rooney II said the team will wait a “little while longer” for Rodgers per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
“A little while longer. I’ll say the same thing,” Rooney said via Fowler on Twitter.
#Steelers president Art Rooney II — who said April 1 that the Steelers will wait "not forever, but a little while longer" for Aaron Rodgers — delivered a similar line on his way out of Wednesday's owners meetings.
“A little while longer. I’ll say the same thing," he said.
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) May 22, 2025
On April 1, Rooney said that the Steelers are willing to wait for Rodgers, delivering a similar line to what he said today. “Not forever, but a little while longer.”
With Mandatory Minicamp beginning on June 10, it’s reasonable to expect that the Steelers and Rooney would want Rodgers in the building by then. Ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft, Rooney hinted that the Steelers would like to have Rodgers in the building for some parts of Pittsburgh’s offseason program, and Mandatory Minicamp would serve as a reasonable deadline.
The team currently has Mason Rudolph, rookie Will Howard and Skylar Thompson in the quarterback room, and Rodgers should elevate the team’s room and raise their ceiling this season. But the longer it drags on and Rodgers isn’t with the team, the more likely it is that he doesn’t sign, even though the team has maintained that they think they’re getting him.
It doesn’t seem as if there’s any hard deadline for Rodgers, but with it being two months since he made a visit to the team’s facility and no decision on his end, their patience may be running out. Rooney makes it sound like the team is still content to wait a little bit longer, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens if Minicamp comes and goes and Rodgers is still a free agent.
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