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Steelers QB Has Brutally Honest Take On Aaron Rodgers

Originally posted on The Spun | By Tzvi Machlin | Last updated May 27, 2025 5:56 PM ET

The Pittsburgh Steelers have been listed as the top team to sign free agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers for what seems like months now, but no deal has materialized.

However, the Steelers still have three quarterbacks on the roster that are vying for the role Rodgers is expected to get. One of them, veteran Mason Rudolph, had a pretty blunt take on the situation with the team's ongoing pursuit of Rodgers.

Speaking to the media this week, Rudolph admitted that he's been dealing with "constant noise" for a while now. He called it "the nature of the NFL" and something he's gotten used to by now. Rudolph said that his goal is to simply be the best he can be throughout the spring and early summer.

“That’s nothing new to me. There’s been constant noise,” Rudolph said, via Steelers.com. “That is the nature of the NFL. So I am used to that for a long time. Now I’m doing nothing but being the best I can be to help our team get better this spring.”

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As it stands, the three quarterbacks on the Steelers' roster are Rudolph, former seventh-round pick Skylar Thompson and rookie Will Howard. It's not a crop of quarterbacks that's necessarily going to strike fear in the AFC North, let alone the AFC as a whole.

Little wonder then that the Steelers haven't given up on trying to get Rodgers since any one of those three on the roster would be considered the fourth (or even fifth) best quarterback in the division.

GREEN BAY, WI - AUGUST 16: Mason Rudolph #2 of the Pittsburgh Steelers drops back to pass during the first quarter of a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on August 16, 2018 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)Stacy Revere/Getty Images

But Rodgers hasn't made it easy for the Steelers to stay in the hunt. While he's dropped hints here and there, he hasn't really said anything that firmly indicates that he plans on playing in 2025 - or for the Steelers.

The Steelers made the playoffs by the skin of their teeth in 2024 thanks to a combination of great defense, some savvy quarterback play from Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, and the coaching genius of Mike Tomlin.

Fields and Wilson are gone now though and the Steelers will now have their fourth starting quarterback in just three years.

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