The Steelers made a change on their offensive line after their rookie minicamp.
They announced that they have signed center Greg Crippen after he tried out for the team over the weekend. They waived offensive lineman Sataoa Laumea in a corresponding move.
Crippen started all 13 games for Michigan last season and appeared in 41 games over his entire time in Ann Arbor. Zach Frazier is set to start at center for the Steelers this season and Ryan McCollum is also on hand as a backup.
Laumea was a Seahawks sixth-round pick in 2024 and he started six games during his rookie season. He was waived last summer and spent time on the Saints’ practice squad before signing with Pittsburgh in January.
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Aaron Rodgers may have been in Pittsburgh over the weekend, but his visit didn’t include a meeting with the Steelers.
A report from 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh late last week said that Rodgers would be at the team’s facility and that he was expected to sign with the team before the weekend was over. Subsequent reports cast doubt on the imminent signing, whether the Steelers had any idea that Rodgers was going to be in the city and that any meeting was in the works.
Saturday brought word that Rodgers and the Steelers had not met and Adam Schefter of ESPN said on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday that the weekend passed without any interaction between the quarterback and the team.
The Steelers move into the final phase of their offseason program next Monday when they hold the first of 10 scheduled offseason team activities. Whether Rodgers will be there for any of those workouts remains as much of a mystery as it was when his first season as a Steeler came to an end in a 30-6 blowout loss to the Texans.
The Steelers haven’t settled anything with quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the 2026 season, but they got a deal done with kicker Chris Boswell.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Boswell has agreed to a four-year extension with the team. That puts him under contract in Pittsburgh through the 2030 season.
Boswell’s deal is worth $28 million and the $7 million average annual salary of the extension is equal to the one that Brandon Aubrey signed with the Cowboys earlier in the offseason.
Boswell is heading into his 12th season with the Steelers. He is 299-of-341 on field goals and 353-of-369 on extra points during his time in Pittsburgh. Boswell, who was a first-team All-Pro in 2024, was 27-of-32 on field goals and 42-of-43 on extra points last year.
Twenty-five years after Acrisure Stadium opened in Pittsburgh, some of the seats are being replaced. And the old ones are for sale.
Via WPXI, roughly 22,000 seats can be purchased from the Upper Level East, Upper Level West, and North Club sections.
A single seat can be purchased for $399. A pair of seats costs $599.
For a slightly cheaper option, individual seat backs cost $199. Seat bottoms are $149.
The seats are both yellow and gray. Currently, a smattering of black seats are being added to the stadium, in an effort to soften the eyeball-scorching effect of bright, piercing yellow.
The facility opened in 2001 as Heinz Field. It replaced Three Rivers Stadium, a multi-purpose facility that the Steelers and Pirates shared for three decades.
Yes, Aaron Rodgers has returned to Pittsburgh. No, he has not yet returned to the Steelers.
Via Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rodgers “has been in town for a couple days.” However, he has not met with the Steelers. He also has not made an appearance at the team’s facility during the weekend’s rookie minicamp. (There had been at least one report that he wanted to get to know the new players.)
Instead, the Steelers have been talking to Rodgers’s agent.
Despite persistent claims that Rodgers’s potential re-signing isn’t about money, there’s nothing to discuss in a veteran contract except money. He had a base salary of $13.65 million last year, a very low rate relative to the market at the position. This year, the ultimate question is the amount he wants, the amount the team will offer, and whether (and where) the two positions will overlap.
Meanwhile, coach Mike McCarthy met with reporters on Saturday. On the possibility of Rodgers officially joining the team before OTAs begin on May 18, McCarthy said, “Three quarterbacks is the normal. Four would be awesome.”
Scotty Miller attended Bears rookie minicamp on a tryout basis in an effort to get on the team’s 90-man roster.
He’s now able to say, “Mission accomplished.”
Chicago has agreed to sign Miller, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.
Miller, 28, spent the last two seasons with the Steelers. He caught nine passes for 62 yards in 2025.
Miller’s best season came in 2020, when he was part of the Bucs team that won Super Bowl LV. He caught 33 passes for 501 yards with three touchdowns that year, with another four receptions for 80 yard with a TD in the postseason.
Veteran receiver Scotty Miller, who spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons in Pittsburgh, has found no takers in free agency. He’s participating in the Bears’ rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, in an effort to win a spot on the 90-man offseason roster.
As Larry Mayer of the team’s official website explains it, Miller made a “dazzling diving catch deep down the right sideline” on the last snap of Friday’s minicamp practice.
“He’s got a history with [receivers] coach [Antwaan] Randle El,” Bears coach Ben Johnson told reporters. “Randle El was with him when he was a young buck there in Tampa, so there are some shared experiences. Looking forward to seeing him run around and compete a little bit. From afar, I’ve been able to see the speed, quickness. [He’s] certainly very intriguing.”
A sixth-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2019, Miller won a Super Bowl in 2020 with Tampa. After four seasons there, he spent a year in Atlanta before joining the Steelers.
The 2020 season was his best, by far, with 33 catches for 501 yards and three touchdowns.
As the Steelers’ rookies work their first minicamp, fewer and fewer of them are working for free.
Three more members of the 2026 draft class have agreed to terms. The Steelers announced the deals on Saturday morning.
Signing their slotted rookie deals were third-round cornerback Daylen Everett, third-round guard Gennings Dunker, and fifth-round fullback Riley Nowakowski.
The trio joins fourth-round wide receiver Kaden Wetjen, sixth-round offensive tackle Gabriel Rubio, and seventh-round safety Robert Spears-Jennings as officially being under contract.
The remaining unsigned players are first-round offensive tackle Max Iheanachor, second-round wide receiver Germie Bernard, third-round quarterback Drew Allar, and seventh-round running back Eli Heidenreich.
There’s a growing trend toward getting draft picks signed before they set foot on a practice field for the first time. Yes, unsigned players sign letters of protection that allow them to practice in exchange for a promise that, in the event of a serious injury, they’ll still get their contracts.
The best protection is to have the contract in place.
When it comes to the Steelers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the new normal is abnormal.
With no sign that Rodgers will be signing with the Steelers in the immediate future, 93.7 The Fan reported on Thursday morning that Rodgers would be visiting Pittsburgh, with an expectation that he would sign a contract. NFL Network confirmed the visit, but tapped the brakes on a deal being done.
On Friday morning, Steelers G.M. Omar Khan said he doesn’t know where Rodgers is.
Now, Mark Kaboly (Steelers correspondent for The Pat McAfee Show) has shared this observation on Twitter: “From everything I can gather, there is no meeting scheduled or expected between Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. I’ve reached out to a couple inside the building and nobody has seen him yet. Today is the first day of rookie minicamp. Media will be there on Saturday. Stay tuned. Maybe Rodgers will show later, maybe tomorrow or maybe he won’t.”
That pretty much summarizes the situation with Rodgers. Maybe he will. Maybe he won’t. Either way, he won’t be saying anything. And he’ll reserve the right to complain when the media tries to make sense of the nonsensical.
Yes, Rodgers has the right to make decisions on his own timeline. He doesn’t have the right to play games. All too often, it seems as if he is.
The Steelers signed three draft picks on Friday.
They announced that fourth-round wide receiver Kaden Wetjen, sixth-round offensive tackle Gabriel Rubio and seventh-round safety Robert Spears-Jennings.
They are the first of the team’s 10 draft picks to sign, leaving first-round offensive tackle Max Iheanachor, second-round wide receiver Germie Bernard, third-round quarterback Drew Allar, third-round cornerback Daylen Everette, third-round offensive tackle Gennings Dunker, fifth-round tight end Riley Nowakowski and seventh-round running back Eli Heidenreich unsigned.
Wetjen, who played at Iowa, was selected with the 121st overall pick.
He started seven of the 40 games he appeared in for Iowa and made 23 receptions for 197 yards and one touchdown over three seasons.
Wetjen was drafted for his special teams ability. He had 954 punt return yards for a 17.7-yard average, with four touchdowns. He also returned 56 kickoffs for 1,538 yards, a 27.5-yard average, and two touchdowns.
Rubio, who played at Notre Dame, was selected with the 210th overall pick.
He appeared in six games in 2025, starting five, but missed the final six due to injury. Rubio played 39 career games for the Fighting Irish, starting eight. He recorded 66 tackles, 27 of them solo stops.
Spears-Jennings, who played at Oklahoma, was selected with the 224th overall pick.
He played all 13 games in 2025, starting the final 12.
Spears-Jennings finished his college career with 178 tackles, including 101 solo stops, with eight tackles for loss and two interceptions in 47 games.
