Steelers Now
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers received high praise from seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. Brady believes Rodgers is the best in NFL history when it comes to tossing the pigskin.
“I think there’s no greater passer of the football than Aaron Rodgers,” Brady said Monday on the Stick to Football podcast. “There’s certain people, you see everyone do it, and then you see one person throw the ball that much better. Aaron Rodgers was incredible.”
Brady added that Rodgers makes it look so effortless.
“[It’s] hard to put into words how incredible he passes the ball,” Brady said. “The way it comes out of his hand, the way it spins and delivers with the pace and the accuracy. . . . There’s only probably three people in the history of the NFL that could do it like him.”
Rodgers nearly pulled off an heroic Hail Marry pass last season in the Steelers’ 33-31 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 7. To say the least, Rodgers displayed that he still has a cannon of an arm.
The Hail Mary pass attempt that resulted in an incompletion traveled 69.8 yards in the air, the longest recorded pass attempt since at least 2017, according to Next Gen Stats.
Rodgers has thrown four successful Hail Mary passes in his career, which is the most by any NFL player. His most recent successful Hail Mary was a 52-yard touchdown to Allen Lazard in Week 6 of the 2024 season.
On the final play of the final team period for the first-team offense at minicamp, Rodgers ended a two-minute drill with a monster big play, dropping back to heave a 70-yard deep ball over the entire Steelers defense, and into the arms of a streaking Roman Wilson.
“It’s just a beautiful ball,” Wilson said afterward to Steelers Now. “He puts a lot of air under it. It’s different (to explain) because I’m not really watching it, I’m tracking it, so I just appreciate his placement of where he puts it.”
Darnell Washington, who was running an underneath route on the play, had a perfect view as Rodgers dropped a bomb of the gold-clad defense.
“He’s still got it,” Washington said. “He ain’t lose a step yet. Just to see the arm talent — still there. Roman just opened up the deep ball, running down field like that. It for sure was crazy, just to see it.”
Alan Saunders contributed.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Tom Brady Gives Aaron Rodgers Ringing Endorsement
