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Brooke pryor
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- Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation in ESPN, who has been covered by Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. Previously, she covered Kansas City chiefs for the star Kansas City and the University of Oklahoma for Oklahoman.
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Kevin Seifert
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- Kevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers Minnesota Vikings and NFL in ESPN. Kevin covered NFL for more than 20 years and in 2008 joined ESPN. Previously, Beat was a reporter for Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Palm Beach, FLA. – If you want to hear the owners of the Steelers Art Rooney II, say it on Tuesday morning at the annual league meetings of the NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers “Hears” four times quarterback MVP Aaron Rodgers It is “heading in our direction”.
“We still get a positive kind of signals,” Rooney said. “So yeah, I would say we feel pretty good at this point.”
But since he was released New York JetsRodgers was also associated with Minnesota Vikingswho conducted interviews with Rodgers last month.
“He happened to be in his career at the moment when freedom was supposed to have a real dialogue about what his future could look like,” Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said. “And by chance we were one of those teams he had reached out. And I had a personal relationship with him that came back from my game days.”
While Rodgers did not publicly throw his hand on his decision, he visited Pittsburgh on March 21 and spent six hours with the brass Steelers and coaching staff.
“It was a really good day,” coach Steelers Mike Tomlin said about the meeting. “Specifically, he and I apparently knew about ourselves for some time, so it was really good to spend some time together and get to know each other more intimately. But it’s a free agency, it’s a process.”
Rodgers left Pittsburgh without agreeing to the contract, but the source with direct knowledge of the situation indicated that the Steelers felt positive about the possibility that Rodgers landed with them. Since then, the steelers have remained “engaged” with Rodgers, the source said. Rodgers was also filmed with throwing with a STEELERS WIDE receiver Dk metcalf over the weekend.
However, when the biggest creators of the league decision-making packed their annual meetings on Tuesday, Rodgers still had to decide where to play next season-or if he would play at all. Could he turn from the Steelers and head to his old opponent? Will Tomlin attract him to a steel city? Here is everything we know about where things stand with a popular Quarterback, with the permission of the reporter Steelers Brooke Pryor and reporter Vikings Kevin Seifert.
What is the term sielers to decide from Rodgers?
It depends on who you ask. The consensus from the Steelers is that there is no dead date they need the Rodgers decision.
Does it mean that Rooney is happy to wait?
“Well, not forever,” he said, “But for a while.”
However, there may be quite a few calendar sites for a while.
Although he acknowledged that he wanted his position to be more straightened with the NFL proposal less than a month away, Tomlin said that the list building was continuous. He also added that the Quarterback-Pronáscelání process did not prevent the team from gathering information about this year’s design class or implementing other steps in the free agency.
“Now we are about weeks of design, so we certainly all like to level circumstances, but it’s a process – getting talent, whether it’s a quarterback or in all positions,” Tomlin said on Sunday. “We spent a large part of our spring and offseason by building a list of 90 men, and that’s what it is.”
Tomlin set the training camp as a “series of definitions” where the incomplete position of the Quarterback would prevent team development. – Pryor
What does Rodgers mean with Metcalf?
Rooney counts it as one of these positive signals. Shots published on Social Media on Monday showed that Rodgers are working with the Steelers Metcalf receiver at the weekend, which the team won on March 9 in a blockbuster store with Seattle Seahawks.
“I would say it was a good sign that he wanted to do it,” Rooney said on Tuesday.
OMAR KHAN CEO also said it was good to see how Rodgers work with metcalf.
“I wasn’t there, but that’s good if it happened, I’d say it,” he said.
It can be something. There may be nothing. You never know with Rodgers. – Pryor
If not Rodgers, who for the Steelers?
Tomlin said he was “comfortable” with an idea Mason Rudolph When the team began Quarterback, but Khan acknowledged that the team still has two places of Quarterback to fill it, so they are able to go to the training camp with a typical group of positions. Khan said it was “safe to assume” that one of these places will go to a veteran quarterback.
“All options are on the table via a free agency, trade or proposal,” Khan said.
The company of available Quarterbacks of free agents and potential trade candidates is limited. Joe Flacco and Carson Wentz are the best options of the steelers between available agents’ quarterbacks for free while Atlanta Kirk cousins It can be the most realistic business goal. Cousins has a clause without a trade and this season is guaranteed $ 27.5 million and in 2026 another $ 10 million bonus is due in 2026, making it difficult.
The Quarterback Draft class also does not seem to be particularly fertile, but the Steelers have made their due diligence to meet Alabama’s Jalen MilroeLouisville’s Tyler sough and Texas’ Quinn ewersAmong other things. Ole Miss Quarterback Jaxson dart It could also be the goal of the first round, although it is assumed to go before selecting the Steelers at 21 .—— 21.- Pryor
If not the Steelers, what about the Rodgers?
When the free agency started, the Steelers and New York Giants were two teams actively engaged with Rodgers and Giants have expanded the contract of contract. Giants have considered to be signing Russell WilsonWho was with the Steelers last season, on one -year agreement after ink JAMEIS WINSTON to a one -year agreement.
If Rodgers ended up with the Vikings, the Brett Favre would complete the cycle. After Favre completed his 16 -year term at Packers, he continued in one season for the Jets and two with the Vikings. The Hall of Fame retired in January 2011 at the age of 41 years after 20 years in the NFL. Of course, Rodgers were developed Packers as Favre’s backup. After 18 years in Green Bay spent the last two seasons with the Jets.
In addition to these three teams, no other organization was associated with Rodgers. If the Pittsburgh Agreement does not decide, Rodgers (41) could consider retirement after his own 20 -year career, or he could wait for another team to come in case of an injury. – Pryor
What was the nature of the Vikings discussions with Rodgers?
Rodgers reached out last month directly on O’Connell, whom he had known since they played together in the league at the end of 2000.
“Aaron and I had a relationship for a long time,” O’Connell said this week. “At first he reached out and we were able to talk. We were hunting to always improve our football team and give our football team the best chance to win.
“You are constantly acknowledging and evaluating all the opportunities that may be there. And it was certainly the one that I found was interesting, just because it talks about what our place has changed for Quarterbacks, which I know (Kwesi Adofo-Minsah) and I’m very proud.
Vikings have already offered the veteran contracts Sam darnold and Daniel JonesBut both signed elsewhere provided that Jj mccarthy – Selection No. 10 from the proposal 2024, which missed the newcomers season due to the torn right meniscus- would soon, if not immediately, got to the initial work.
Rodgers and O’Connell spoke several times and O’Connell gave these interviews to key creators of the decision. This caused several days of discussion about what it would look like to add Rodgers and push back McCarthy’s schedule to the 2026 season. – Seifert
How did they leave it?
The Vikings decided to leave this position open, so McCarthy could benefit from the maximum repetition with the first team as soon as Ota and Micamp begin.
“We had a Quarterback plan with JJ McCarthy,” said O’Connell, “and (we) really likes where he’s on this way right now, and we look forward to getting offseason, except for all the work he has done until then come here in a few weeks.”
Adofo-Minsah said McCarthy opens the season, because the starter is the “result we want” and “the result we are heading for”. But he did not completely rule out the possibility that Rodgers could re -represent Vikings’ interviews if he would not sign elsewhere first.
“To sit here and say that anything is 100 percent forever, it’s just no work,” said Adofo-Mensah. “We are responding to scenarios and various information as it will come. So things can change, but right now we are really satisfied with our (Quarterback) rooms and we will try to upgrade it in different ways.” – Seifert
In what scenario would Rodgers become the possibility for the Vikings?
This spring, McCarthy would have to show stunning evidence that he would not be ready to play this season, either due to injury or complete conversion of the skills and skills he has proved during his short time in the training camp last summer. In an emergency, consider Break-the-Glass. Otherwise the Vikings are determined by their plan to get McCarthy to the field for the season 2025. – Seifert
