On the doorstep of the NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers were crystal clear about their quarterback situation. One way or another, additions — plural — were going to be made.
“We go to camp with four quarterbacks,” Steelers general manager Omar Khan said, prior to the first day of the draft. “Right now we have two on the roster. All options are on the table in how we acquire those last two. I assure you we’ll have four when we get to [training camp in] Latrobe [Pennsylvania].”
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The draft has come and gone, with the sixth-round selection of Ohio State’s Will Howard adding to that room. This was an Aaron Rodgers move in a Steelers draft that was stacked with Aaron Rodgers moves. We’ll get to that in a second. First, the bottom line: Roughly five weeks from the team’s mandatory attendance full-squad minicamp in June, Pittsburgh remains on schedule to get Rodgers into the fold.
However, that schedule won’t include a clock or deadlines, no matter how many times the outside world tries to nail one down. That’s for the very much intended purpose of eliminating more stories about Rodgers’ existence in Pittsburgh’s orbit, eliminating questions about why he is not taking part in organized team activities and even leaving the door open for him to potentially miss the June minicamp, if it ultimately comes to that. So long as Rodgers isn’t signed, there is no room for questions about why he’s signed but not in the building, or a running timeline of when he is going to show up.
It also eliminates Pittsburgh getting pulled into any of the side stories that often follow Rodgers — the most recent being speculation about his Kentucky Derby attendance Saturday, which appeared to reveal a ring on Rodgers’ left-hand, wedding-band finger. The development set off social media and immediately summoned theories that part of the reason Rodgers is taking his time marrying the Steelers this offseason is because he’s been busy marrying someone…
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