Steelers Now
PITTSBURGH — Four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers showed Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Drew Allar the ropes during spring practices. The third-round pick will have a front row seat to the last year of Rodgers’ career.
“I’ve definitely learned a ton,” Allar told Joe Smeltzer of Steelers Now at minicamp. “Like Aaron’s done a great job of just being very open with me, answering all my questions. Pulling me aside during practices, if he sees something, and me asking him a lot of questions. He’s done a great amount of help already for me. So I’m really excited to keep learning from him. And honestly, just keep watching him play.”
Allar provided more information on what he’s learned from Rodgers last week at OTAs
“With me, specifically, he’s pulled me aside during practice to talk through some drill work or things to focus on through different drills. In the film room, [he’s] just asking me questions of what I was seeing, what I was looking at and why. [He’s] giving me a lot of good knowledge,” Allar said. “I’m really excited to keep learning from him. Obviously he’s one of the best to ever do it in this game. So the opportunity I have is one I’m not going to take for granted.”
Going back to the NFL Combine, well before Allar or anybody else knew he’d be a Steeler, Allar said that Mike McCarthy gave him his toughest pre-draft interview.
Now, he’s gotten to work with McCarthy and said that he’s “very, very good at explaining the why behind everything.”
“So just being as detailed as possible with that in the classroom and with the playbook, so then when you go out here, you kind of just go out and play it and not have to think too much,” Allar said. “He’s done a great job of that. We’re going through the process of simplifying things a little bit right now. So that’s been good so far.
“With me, specifically, he’s pulled me aside during practice to talk through some drill work or things to focus on through different drills,” Allar said last week. “In the film room, [he’s] just asking me questions of what I was seeing, what I was looking at and why. [He’s] giving me a lot of good knowledge. I’m really excited to keep learning from him. Obviously he’s one of the best to ever do it in this game. So the opportunity I have is one I’m not going to take for granted.”
Alan Saunders and Joe Smeltzer provided reporting from Pittsburgh.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Aaron Rodgers Has Taken Drew Allar Under His Wing
