


The Pittsburgh Steelers are still waiting for Aaron Rodgers to decide whether he wants to play in 2025.
Yet coach Mike Tomlin and general manager Omar Khan stressed Tuesday that Rodgers’ uncertain status will not impact how they approach this week’s NFL draft.
The Steelers have the 21st overall pick in Thursday night’s first round and have needs across the roster, most notably along the defensive line and at quarterback, where Mason Rudolph and Skyler Thompson are the only two players under contract.
Khan said the plan is to have that number double by the time the team reports to training camp in late July, and that “all options are on the table” on how the club might add whoever those two quarterbacks end up being to the roster.
The 41-year-old Rodgers toured Pittsburgh’s facility in March and said last week that he remains in contact with the Steelers, but added that current circumstances in his personal life have taken precedence over whatever might be left of his career.
The group of quarterbacks in the draft isn’t particularly deep, though Khan said multiple times it’s a “good group.”
The Steelers brought in four prospects for a pre-draft visit, including potential first-rounders Jaxson Dart and the University of Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders.
Tomlin called his time with Sanders “productive” and said that the focus was on football, not Sanders’ father, Colorado coach and Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
“There’s a toughness there (in Shedeur) that doesn’t get talked about enough,” Tomlin said. “There’s a competitive spirit there that doesn’t get talked about enough. I know he is very talented and has made a lot of plays for his university and his team, but the intangible qualities displayed on tape were impressive to me.”
The Steelers don’t have a ton of draft capital, having sent a second-round pick to Seattle for wide receiver DK Metcalf in March.