{"id":505334,"date":"2025-11-23T20:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505334"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:07:38","slug":"steelers-head-coach-expects-rodgers-to-return-next-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/steelers-head-coach-expects-rodgers-to-return-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers\u2018 head coach expects Rodgers to return next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers boss Mike Tomlin shared he thinks Aaron Rodgers will be ready for next week&#8217;s match after his team was defeated 31-28 today vs. the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron, who fractured his left wrist vs. the Bengals in the past week, was not active vs. Chicago and did not serve as emergency 3<sup>rd<\/sup> QB. Mason Rudolph replaced him today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Rodgers would be able to start vs. Buffalo next week,\u201d the Steelers manager revealed. \u201cAaron had problems through the week, and Rudolph was at his best, and that\u2019s why I decided that it\u2019s not worth risking him by playing today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s head coach shared that he decided yesterday that Rodgers will not play, and he told Mason to prepare to start against the Bears. However, some of Aaron\u2019s teammates revealed that they found out today that the veteran QB would not play, including Zach Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know until a few hours before the match that Aaron would be out,\u201d the center claimed. \u201cHowever, that didn\u2019t affect the offense as we are ready to play with both QBs.\u201d Added Frazier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tomlin admits he made the decision to sit Aaron Rodgers yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2SkBW9IPv9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2SkBW9IPv9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blitzburgh (@Blitz_Burgh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blitz_Burgh\/status\/1992709711570083964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers boss Mike Tomlin shared he thinks Aaron Rodgers will be ready for next week&#8217;s match after his team was defeated 31-28 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":493094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18029,17148],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18163,18446],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Tomlin expects Aaron to be on the field against the Bills.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505335,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505334\/revisions\/505335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505334"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505334"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}