The Pittsburgh Steelers have already lost Mike Tomlin this offseason, with the 19-year head coach stepping down following the Wild Card Round loss to the Texans.
What's next? An Aaron Rodgers retirement decision might be coming, one way or the other.
Rodgers is 42 and signed a one-year deal with the Steelers, in large part because of Tomlin. He proved to himself and the football world that he can still spin the football.
But would he come back to play at 43? And would it be for the Steelers?
Those are the questions everyone is asking.
NFL.com writer Nick Shook provides a two-pronged perspective on this in a new article Friday.
Essentially, Shook writes that the Steelers should want Rodgers back but that he's not sure Rodgers will actually come back.
"If any team desperately needs a 42-year-old future Hall of Famer to delay his expected retirement and make one more go at it, it's Pittsburgh, where Rodgers enjoyed a relatively resurgent 2025 season and proved he can still sling it," Shook writes. "Convincing him to run it back, however, might be too steep of an ask."
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Rodgers did take a beating at times during the 2025 season, so he'd have to get himself mentally prepared to do that again if he came back.
Tom Brady played until he was 45, but that's the exception, not the rule. Rodgers has accomplished pretty much everything there is to accomplish.
The Steelers likely viewed him as a one-year bridge QB this season, but if they decide they need another bridge, maybe they will indeed try to get Rodgers back, this time for a new head coach.
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