It’s officially, official. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced signing quarterback Aaron Rodgers late Thursday night.
With the announcement, the Steelers posted on social media that Rodgers agreed to a one-year contract. The full financial terms of the deal have yet to be revealed, but on Friday, multiple league insiders shared around what the contract will be worth.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that Rodgers’ one-year deal is for less than $20 million.
“Money was NEVER the issue in deal with Aaron Rodgers,” Dulac tweeted. “It was always a one-year offer for less than $20 million.”
To get close to the $20 million mark, though, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Rodgers is going to have to reach incentives built into the deal.
“Aaron Rodgers said on the Pat McAfee Show he’d play for $10 million, and that’s where the base salary is expected to be with some incentives to get a little higher,” Rapoport said Friday, via Penn Live’s Nick Farabaugh. “It is not going to be a big money deal.”
Those terms are in line with what Rodgers told ESPN’s Pat McAfee on April 17 that he wanted.
“There’s been a lot of people assuming they have information about me, and it’s just not true.” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show. “I told every single one of the teams that I talked to that it ain’t about the money that I would play for $10M.”
“I never once said I needed a multi-year deal. $30, $40 million is absolute bull****.”
Those comments appeared to be in reference to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, who argued Rodgers could be aiming to sign a two-year, $90 million deal this offseason.
At the time of the argument, Florio called his Rodgers contract projection an “educated guess.”
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