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.
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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.
After word emerged on Thursday that quarterback Aaron Rodgers was visiting Pittsburgh, a report surfaced that this was news to the Steelers.
A Friday morning appearance by G.M. Omar Khan on You Better You Bet underscored that reality.
“Yeah, you know, I don’t know where specifically Aaron is,” Khan said. “You know, I can tell you that Aaron and I, and Coach [Mike McCarthy] and Aaron and Aaron’s representatives, we’ve had some good conversations since the season ended and since Mike got here and it’s been positive.
“But, yeah, I don’t know where [Rodgers] is at this moment. We continue to have conversations and they’re positive and, you know, we had a good experience with him last year, and, you know, I think he would probably echo the same thing and, you know, conversations continue.”
It’s odd, to say the least, to think that Rodgers would just show up in Pittsburgh unannounced and unplanned. It’s odd, to say the least, for the Steelers not to know he was coming and, one day later, to not know where he is.
Again, the conversations can be only about one thing — money. There’s nothing else to negotiate.
And maybe Rodgers has decided to make things awkward in an effort to break the logjam and get a deal done. Until then, the only way to describe the situation is with one word.
Odd.
When news broke on Thursday that quarterback Aaron Rodgers was heading to Pittsburgh, it seemed at first that a dam break of normalcy was returning to the city framed by three rivers.
It’s all still kind of abnormal.
Rodgers will be showing up not for a veteran workout session, but for rookie minicamp. There are reports he wants to get to know the new players. The Steelers reportedly didn’t even know he was coming to town. (As one source put it, the Steelers chalked the development up to “Aaron being Aaron.”)
Hovering over the entire situation is the absence of an agreement, tentative or official, between Rodgers and the Steelers. Despite the insistence by some that it’s not about money, an NFL veteran contract is only about money. All other terms are predetermined via the CBA. Amount of money to be paid and structure of the payments are the only things for haggling.
If the two sides had an understanding as to what will be paid, there would be widespread reports of a deal being in place.
Here’s the problem. Rodgers gave the Steelers the equivalent of an introductory rate in 2025. Now, the price is increasing over the relative bargain basement cost of $13.65 million.
The Steelers understandably don’t want to pay more than the introductory rate, with perhaps a slight adjustment for inflation. And, like most savvy consumers who know that a phone call to customer service with a suggestion of cancellation can result in something closer to the introductory rate than full retail, the Steelers are pushing back.
From Rodgers’s perspective, there’s no leverage. There’s no alternative. No other team has expressed any interest in signing Rodgers to a contract.
From the team’s perspective, there’s also no leverage. The alternative to Rodgers is Mason Rudolph or Will Howard or rookie Drew Allar. Which is the same as saying there’s no alternative.
That’s ultimately why the Steelers used the UFA tender, in our opinion. They’ve said it was simply about getting a compensatory draft pick if he signs elsewhere. The truth, we believe, is that it was about eliminating his alternative to playing for the Steelers or no one.
Without the UFA tender, Rodgers could have waited and watched. He could have signed with anyone, at any time. Before the season. During the season. Late in the season. During the postseason.
The message would have been simple. “Until you pay me what I want, I’ll just wait for another opportunity to potentially emerge.”
The Steelers have now blocked that path. Which brings the question back to playing for the Steelers or no one. Which compels the two sides to come to an agreement on money — especially with Rodgers showing up in Pittsburgh and apparently planning to loiter around the locker room until a deal is done.
So what’s a fair salary for 2026? At a minimum, it likely begins with a “2". And it’s hardly unfair to expect $25 million, given that Malik Willis has parlayed six career starts into a $25 million-per-year deal with the Dolphins.
Our guess is that they’ll eventually reach an agreement. Possibly in the range of $20 million plus incentives that can push it to more than $25 million based on postseason success or other triggers. (Last year’s deal included $5.85 million in incentives, $500,000 of which — for a playoff berth — was earned.)
Still, there’s no agreement yet. And the only holdup is money. That’s the only thing that a team and a veteran player have to negotiate in order to come to terms. If it wasn’t an issue, there would be a contract.
With quarterback Aaron Rodgers returning to Pittsburgh today, the question becomes whether a contract will be finalized between Rodgers and the Steelers for 2026.
On one hand, Rodgers wouldn’t be making the trip unless he had a pretty good idea that a deal is doable. On the other hand, no deal — no matter how doable — is done until doable becomes did.
The tweets from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network regarding Rodgers’s return visit to the Steel City underscore the point that the yellow towels must be accompanied by sufficient green bills.
The unrestricted free agent tender that was applied to Rodgers last week puts on the table a one-year deal at an increase of 10 percent over last year’s salary of $13.65 million. Will Rodgers take roughly $15 million for another season? If (as he should) he wants more, how much more does he want?
Some have consistently downplayed the money angle. If it wasn’t an issue, now would be the time for the reports to indicate that the two sides have an agreement as to the financial side of the arrangement. Absent such reporting, there’s no deal on money.
Which means they’ll need to reach one.
Still, the two sides have surely kicked around numbers. To the extent a gap currently exists, Rodgers wouldn’t be flying back to Pittsburgh if he didn’t think it is something that can be bridged fairly easily.
There’s another wrinkle in all of this. Mark Kaboly, the Steelers correspondent for The Pat McAfee Show, reports that the Steelers were not aware that Rodgers will be coming to town. The truth could be that Rodgers has decided that it’s time to get in a room and hammer out whatever differences may remain as to the financial investment the Steelers are willing to make.
Again, nothing is final until it’s final. Plenty of Steelers fans are surely relieved that something finally is happening.
Plenty of other Steelers fans are surely wishing that the looming negotiations will end in an impasse. The fan base was split last year on Rodgers. This year, the “nay” camp has only gotten larger.
