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June 5: What Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers means for fantasy
Matt Bowen: Aaron Rodgers plans to signal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, sources instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday.
Rodgers, who will flip 42 in the course of the 2025 season, threw for 3,897 yards, 29 landing passes and 11 interceptions final 12 months as a member of the New York Jets, who, coincidentally, will host the Steelers in Week 1. Justin Fields, who began the primary six video games for Pittsburgh final season, is now the presumed starter for the Jets.
When it comes to Rodgers’ fantasy affect, we had already been projecting his stats based mostly on him becoming a member of the Steelers.
So let’s talk about the veteran quarterback’s ability set at this stage of his profession and what it means fantasy-wise for the Pittsburgh offense.
Primarily based on the tape I’ve watched, the arm expertise nonetheless pops with Rodgers, as does the short launch and accelerated discipline imaginative and prescient. He can get the ball out and establish post-snap protection rotations with ease. Sure, the mobility and pocket poise have declined, which does restrict his alternatives to create outdoors of construction at a better charge, however in a run-oriented offense, one which may even use play-action parts to maintain the pocket agency, Rodgers can perform and produce in Arthur Smith’s system.
With Rodgers’ arrival, DK Metcalf’s fantasy worth will get a slight increase from the place it had been earlier than the QB’s arrival. Metcalf has the field-stretching capability to run the skin verticals and deep in-breakers, plus he might be a high quick-gain goal for Rodgers on slants, unders and screens. That places Metcalf within the WR2/Flex vary heading into the 2025 fantasy season, whereas Pat Freiermuth stays a mid-tier TE2 with potential streaming upside who will be considered as a giant physique choice in the midst of the sphere.
Bear in mind, Rodgers averaged 15.1 PPG with each Garrett Wilson and Davante Adams as his high targets final season in New York. And in a Steelers offense that can use the run sport as a foundational piece, Rodgers suits greatest as a QB2 who will be began in 2QB Superflex codecs or as a matchup-based streaming choice.