There is just one NFL team that is actually interested in hiring former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 2025. The New York Giants seem to have a quarterback room that includes Tommy DeVito, Jameis Winston, and the former Wisconsin Badgers standout after signing Russell Wilson yesterday. It’s realistic to assume that Rodgers won’t be on their roster for the following season, but they won’t completely rule out chasing him
The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only other NFL team in need of a quarterback that is considering signing Rodgers after New York decided to sign Wilson. He allegedly spoke with coaches and front desk staff at the team’s facilities for almost six hours last weekend.
Green Bay Packers Legend LeRoy Butler Thinks Aaron Rodgers Could Lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Super Bowl
If Rodgers decides to sign with the Steelers, he will be joining a club that finished 10-7 the previous season and has improved their offensive for 2025 in every way save adding a quarterback. They most famously acquired DK Metcalf, a two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver.
Wilson and backup Justin Fields, on the other hand, have both signed elsewhere for the next year.
They might capitalize on a vulnerable AFC North and qualify for the NFL Playoffs if Rodgers signs with Pittsburgh. If that were to occur, the four-time NFL MVP would have the opportunity to win a Super Bowl with the club he assisted in defeating in Super Bowl XLV fifteen years prior.
And if Rodgers chooses to play one more season, Hall of Fame safety LeRoy Butler, who played in Green Bay his whole NFL career, believes that’s what will happen:
“If he comes in, I think you have a legitimate chance to get to the Super Bowl,” Butler told Ty Dunne on the ‘Go Long TD’ podcast. “If Aaron Rodgers goes to Pittsburgh, you expect them to be in the Super Bowl. They’ll be my Super Bowl pick if he goes there.”
Of course, this would give Rodgers the opportunity to do something Butler saw up close and personal in his own career. Denver Broncos legend John Elway ended his career by winning the Super Bowl in consecutive seasons, the first coming against Butler and the Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.
That being said, Butler believes that Rodgers does have to change some things about himself if the marriage with Pittsburgh is going to work.
“Aaron gotta give up the control, and I think Pittsburgh is the only team that can do that. He has to give up the control and really become not the bird that comes in with the worm feeding one of the babies, he has to be one of the babies, with his mouth open. Want to receive coaching and receive the whole team concept, and the only place that can do that is Pittsburgh because Tomlin ain’t going for what the Jets went for.”
The Jets, of course, basically gave Rodgers everything that he wanted. And all it did was set their franchise back several years. They went from 7-10 in the season in which he did not play due to injury to 5-12 in the season that he played. And the decline happened despite them going out to get Davante Adams and keeping Nathaniel Hackett on staff.
Indeed, it surely seems as if the Steelers are interested in Rodgers, and want him to sign with them. But they also want it to be on their terms. Not his.
