Steelers Now
The Pittsburgh Steelers have several revenge games on their 2025 schedule, and that list will grow if Aaron Rodgers eventually signs with the team.
Rodgers, who remains a free agent, is widely suspected to be signing in Pittsburgh. If that happens, the storylines for Steelers-Jets in Week 1 and Steelers-Packers in Week 8 will be endless. The mercurial Rodgers would love nothing more than to get back at his former teams. I’m sure that’s vice versa, too.
Pro Football Focus tabbed the Steelers-Packers game in Week 8 on Sunday Night Football as the best revenge game in 2025. Of course, that depends on Rodgers’ decision. The four-time league MVP did not face his former team during his two-year stint with the Jets. Like his departure from the Jets, Rodgers did not leave Green Bay on good terms.
“After spending the first 17 years of his illustrious career in Green Bay — where he notched 12 seasons with an 80.0 PFF passing grade or better and four MVPs — Rodgers was dealt to the Jets in April 2023. The Jets never squared off with the Packers in either of the past two years, and this game will likely mark Rodgers’ first game against his old franchise,” Braldey Locker of PFF wrote.
“Rodgers (76.3 PFF passing grade in 2024) looking to reassert his dominance at age 41 against his longtime team and mentee in Jordan Love is a tremendous storyline.”
PFF has the Steelers-Jets game in Week 1 as the second-best revenge game. And, to say the least, Rodgers has major beef with the Jets organization.
Rodgers said on the Pat McAfee Show in April that he was fired less than one minute into meeting with the Jets new regime. The way the Jets handled the entire thing really did not sit well with the four-time league MVP.
“I figured that when I flew across country on my own dime that there was going to be a conversation,” Rodgers said. “And the confusing thing to me — and the strange thing — was when I went out there, I meet with the coach, we start talking, he runs out of the room. I’m like, ‘That’s kind of strange.’
“Then he comes back with the GM and I’m like, ‘All right.’ So, we sit down in the office, and I think we’re going to have this long conversation. I’ve flown across the country and, 20 seconds in, he goes … ‘So, do you want to play football?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m interested.’ And he said, ‘We’re going in a different direction at quarterback.’
“I was kind of shocked. Now I’m not shocked because I didn’t think that was a possibility. Listen, of course, if they want to move on, that’s totally fine, but shocked because I just flew across country. You could have told me this on the phone if we weren’t even going to have a conversation.”
Rodgers said he walked out after 15 minutes and never pleaded for his...
