Quarterback · Pittsburgh Steelers

Aaron Rodgers

No. 8 · 22nd season

Rodgers is back in Pittsburgh, and the city isn't rebuilding

There is a short list of quarterbacks who have beaten every team in the league. Aaron Rodgers has a real shot at joining it — and now he'll be chasing that in Pittsburgh.

Rodgers has been one of the most decorated quarterbacks of his generation, the kind of player whose presence alone shifts what a team is asking of itself. After a season in Pittsburgh, he's coming back. The re-signing is a signal: the Steelers are not in a quiet, patient rebuild. They are trying to win.

Jerome Bettis, who ran through defenses for Pittsburgh on his way to the Hall of Fame, put it plainly — the Steelers weren't going to tank, and getting Rodgers back means they don't have to. His read is that the city gets the best of both worlds: a proven quarterback and a team with real ambitions.

For Rodgers, this is another chapter in a late-career story that moved him out of Green Bay and into unfamiliar places. Pittsburgh is familiar now. Whether it becomes something more than that is the question worth watching.

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