Will former Green Bay Packers superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers return for at least one more year in the NFL?
With the Pittsburgh Steelers recently hiring ex-Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy to be the successor of Mike Tomlin on the sidelines, rumors have run rampant about the possibility of Rodgers and McCarthy running it back.
It is easy to make a connection between the two, as they spent several years together in Titletown. Their familiarity with each other in a head coach-quarterback level just can’t be ignored.
Amid the Steelers’ hire of McCarthy, a video of a June 2025 Rodgers appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” has made its rounds on the internet.
Remember when: Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers talking about Mike McCarthy’s Pittsburgh accent. Rodgers is gonna comeback. It’s inevitable. pic.twitter.com/D2NMUrrOpu
— Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress) January 25, 2026
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Granted that it was mostly just about McCarthy’s accent, that conversation between McAfee and Rodgers offered a hint at how the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback feels about his former coach.
During McCarthy’s time as Green Bay’s head coach, he went 125-77, with Rodgers as his chief quarterback.
Perhaps until Rodgers says that he’s officially retiring from the NFL as a player, he will continue to be linked to Pittsburgh.
In the 2025 NFL season, the four-time NFL Most Valuable Player passed for 3,322 yards and 24 touchdowns against seven interceptions in 16 games.
Rodgers, who signed a one-year deal worth $13.65 million in 2025 with the Steelers, only had 146 passing yards with zero touchdowns and an interception on 17/33 pass completions in what could be his final NFL game, which was a 30-6 loss in Pittsburgh at the hands of CJ Stroud and the Houston Texans in the AFC Wild Card Round.
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