The Pittsburgh Steelers solved their quarterback problem for 2025 by signing Aaron Rodgers, but nobody believes the 41-year-old is a long-term solution. Former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is skeptical that Rodgers will even get a second year with Pittsburgh.
Roethlisberger predicted on his “Footbahlin” podcast that the 2025 season might be Rodgers’ “last go.” He cited Rodgers’ return from injury and compared it to how he felt after returning from the elbow injury he suffered in 2019.
“I don’t think he’s got much more after this year,” Roethlisberger predicted. “This might be it for him, personally. I’m just guessing. Coming off my elbow, my first year back, I felt like I was 100. You don’t realize you’re not 100 until the next year, when you are 100. He’s coming, one year last year off his Achilles, he’s probably like, ‘I felt pretty good.’ This year, he’s going to be better, in the sense of (his) body feeling better. That doesn’t mean he’ll play better. There’s a lot of other factors on that.
“I think this might be his last go.”
Rodgers signed a one-year contract with Pittsburgh, which suggests that he might know this is his last ride. There have been claims that he actually wants to play two more years, but we do not know that for sure.
Roethlisberger seems to have fairly modest expectations for Rodgers. He played two more years after his elbow injury, and it sounds like they were fairly difficult. He might believe that Rodgers is about to have a very similar experience.
