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brooke prior
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PITTSBURGH – As an insurance move, pittsburgh steelers rarely used ufa tender aaron rodgers Before Monday’s postdraft deadline.
The UFA tender reserves the Steelers’ right to receive a compensatory draft pick in the event Rodgers signs with another team, while also limiting his ability to sign with another team after the start of training camp. The Steelers will have exclusive negotiating rights to Rodgers if he does not sign with another team by July 22 or the first day of Pittsburgh’s training camp, whichever is later.
Another condition of the tender is that Rodgers can also accept a 10% increase from last year’s salary, which would pay him approximately $15 million this season.
Despite using the tender on him, the Steelers are confident that Rodgers will eventually sign with them, and considered the move “procedural”, a team source told ESPN. The tag is rarely used because the league often does not have unrestricted free agents of Rodgers’ caliber available at this point in the year – capable of making a significant impact on a team’s compensatory choices.
A year ago, Rodgers waited until early June to sign, and signed his one-year deal with the Steelers just before mandatory minicamp. At the NFL Scouting Combine in February, Pittsburgh general manager Omar Khan was confident there would be no repeat of this year’s saga in the 2025 offseason.
With new head coach Mike McCarthy, the Steelers’ offseason schedule is different from a year ago. The Steelers are set to hold their first voluntary OTAs session on May 18, while mandatory minicamp is scheduled for June 2-4 with more voluntary OTAs scheduled after that.
As they awaited Rodgers’ decision, the Steelers actively added to their quarterback room by drafting the Penn State product. Drew Allar In the third round. However, McCarthy said it also included Allar in a room Will Howard And mason rudolph His position with Rodgers was not affected.
“No, not at all,” McCarthy said on saturday. “It’s about developing the room and trying to make the room as deep as possible.”
ESPN’s Adam Schefter contributed to this report.
