Russell Wilson signing with New York checked loads of containers for the Giants’ 2025 QB search—and it make clear the place the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2025 offseason plan of assault might want to go subsequent. Listed below are three of the most important takeaways from Wilson signing a one-year contract with the Giants.
Did Steelers not wish to match Wilson’s team-friendly deal?
Heading into the 2025 offseason, Wilson was projected to signal a contract close to $30 to $35 million per yr, probably pricing himself off the Metal Metropolis’s radar. Nevertheless, as many are actually conscious, ‘Mr. Limitless’ himself signed an affordable, team-friendly, $21 million contract with the New York Giants for one yr—did the Pittsburgh Steelers critically want a probably costlier, 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers over Wilson?
Retirement or Pittsburgh: Rodgers is all the way down to closing two choices
Whereas a lot of the dialogue surrounding the Wilson-Giants deal has centered on the Pittsburgh Steelers shedding leverage over Rodgers, everybody appears to be forgetting that Rodgers additionally misplaced his solely different touchdown spot for 2025—excluding retirement. It was reported that the Minnesota Vikings had already shot down a Rodgers signing, and with the New York Giants following swimsuit, if the four-time MVP needs to play in 2025, the Metal Metropolis is his solely actual shot.
Steelers extra prone to draft first-round QB below Rodgers
As a lot because the Black and Gold devoted, together with myself, would hate repeating the “Kenny Pickett mistake” by reaching for a first-round QB late within the 2025 NFL Draft, it makes much more sense to take action with Wilson signing elsewhere. Wilson, 36 years previous, probably has at the least three to 4 extra years of starting-caliber QB play left within the tank. Rodgers, however, could possibly be all the way down to his closing season in 2025, probably making the choice to draft a QB with the twenty first total decide extra interesting—particularly if DTs Kenneth Grant or Walter Nolen have already been chosen by then.
