Age When 2025 Playoffs End: 42
Is the addition of Rodgers enough to make the Steelers a Super Bowl contender? That’s the question veterans like Heyward, T.J. Watt, Minkah Fitzpatrick and Alex Highsmith—not to mention head coach Mike Tomlin—will be asking.
Pittsburgh hasn’t even won a playoff game since the 2016 season. Rodgers, meanwhile, hasn’t been to a Pro Bowl since the 2021 season. While the Steelers have some talented offensive pieces, like Jaylen Warren, Pat Freiermuth and recent addition DK Metcalf, they can’t offer the quarterback a truly elite supporting cast.
What Pittsburgh can offer Rodgers, though, is a stable organization, a detail-oriented roster and a team that simply hasn’t played losing football under Tomlin.
For the Steelers, it’s worth noting Rodgers missed essentially all of 2023 with a torn Achilles and spent much of last season getting back to 100 percent. On top of that, he battled organizational dysfunction throughout his New York tenure. In Pittsburgh, he could again be a QB capable of leading a team into and winning in the postseason.
And if the Steelers can get into the postseason, they’ll at least have a chance—something Rodgers and the Jets could never say.
Should Pittsburgh manage to reach Super Bowl LX, it’s hard to imagine him finding reasons to return for his age-42 season, with the Steelers or elsewhere.
With 10 Pro Bowls, four MVPs and one Super Bowl on his resume, Rodgers already has little to prove. Showing he can still play well at the end of his career will likely be enough.
