The Steelers signed four-time NFL MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers will wear No. 8.
Rodgers, 41, spent the past two seasons with the New York Jets after a stellar 18-year run with the Green Bay Packers.
In 20 NFL seasons, Rodgers has completed 65.1 percent of his passes for nearly 63,000 yards with 503 touchdown passes and just 116 interceptions.
A nine-time Pro Bowl player and four-time first-team All-Pro, Rodgers also has won a Super Bowl, that coming at the end of the 2010 season over the Steelers.
Possessing one of the quickest releases in NFL history, Rodgers also has pinpoint accuracy, making him one of the league's most difficult matchups for opposing defenses, even at his advanced age.
In 2024, Rodgers, who was coming off a torn Achilles' tendon suffered in the regular season opener in 2023, completed 63 percent of his passes for 3,897 yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
It marked just the fourth time in his career in which he threw 10 or more interceptions.
With Rodgers on board, the Steelers have a quarterback who perhaps meshes more with offensive coordinator Arthur Smith's scheme. Rodgers has excelled utilizing play-action, completing 68 percent of his passes for 4,651 yards with 45 touchdowns and just six interceptions.
In 2025, he completed 71 of 112 passes using play-action, good for 733 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions.
Rodgers also isn't going to hold the football. Of his nearly 600 pass attempts in 2024, on 363 of them, the ball came out in 2.5 seconds or less. He held the ball longer than 2.5 seconds on 221 attempts.
Those numbers largely fall in line with his career percentages.
Rodgers isn't the play extender he was earlier in his career, but he also isn't completely immobile. Even coming off the torn Achilles' tendon in 2024, Rodgers ran for 107 yards, picking up seven first downs.
What the Steelers really are getting is a quarterback who knows where to throw the football against any type of defense.
Rodgers has long been a superior processor who anticipates defensive alignments and throws receivers open. He practically re-invented the back-shoulder throw in his days with the Packers.
With new No. 1 wideout DK Metcalf working on the outside for the Steelers, Rodgers still has the arm talent and knowledge to get the ball to Metcalf and the other receivers by finding the open man.
He'll also attack the middle of the field. Of his nearly 600 pass attempts last season, nearly 200 were to the middle of the field.
In fact, on throws of 20 or more yards downfield last season, he was more accurate to the middle of the field, completing 12 of 19 throws for 367 yards, six touchdowns and two interceptions. On 20-plus-yard throws outside the numbers, Rodgers completed 13 of 44 attempts for 373 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.
Russell Wilson, the Steelers' primary starter in 2024, completed 22 of 40 deep passes outside the numbers for 713 yards with five touchdowns and one interception. But over the deep middle, he was 5 of 10 for 138 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
Rodgers also still excels at finding open players underneath. On passes from 0-9 yards from the line of scrimmage, he completed nearly 75 percent of his attempts for just over 1,800 yards with 12 touchdowns and 3 interceptions.
The Steelers don't need vintage Rodgers. But they do need efficient Rodgers. He is still very much that.
He'll join a Steelers' QB room that includes veteran Mason Rudolph, rookie Will Howard, a sixth-round draft pick, and Skylar Thompson, giving the team a completely re-vamped quarterback group for the second consecutive season.
