Aaron Rodgers is reported to be back. According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Gerry Dulac. Rodgers will sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of next week's minicamp. If that happens, Rodgers will play the Seattle Seahawks in Week 2 of the 2025 season.
Rodgers has faced off 12 times (including playoff games) against Seattle, and some of those games have been extremely memorable. He has gotten the better of the Seahawks, but just barely. The quarterback has a 7-5 record against Seattle.
While the Rodgers-Seahawks matchups have been a fun one, there isn't any real connection between the quarterback and the team other than high-quality and meaningful games. Seattle doesn't have any real reason to greatly dislike Rodgers, and Rodgers has no reason to hate Seattle.
ESPN's Adam Schefter has the strangest opinion of the Seahawks versus Aaron Rodgers
This is why ESPN's Adam Schefter's tweet from Thursday, the day reports surfaced that the quarterback would be inking a deal with Pittsburgh, is so confusing. And, well...seemingly false.
Schefter produced a tweet with the words, "Pittsburgh packs its own personal revenge tour for its QB Aaron Rodgers:" and one of the six games included involves the Seahawks. What? First of all, why does Rodgers need to take revenge on Seattle? That's silly.
Schefter might have meant that, potentially, the quarterback is still upset over the Fail Mary game when wide receiver Golden Tate was ruled to have caught a touchdown pass to beat Rodgers' Packers. But that was in the early part of the 2012 season, and the quarterback and Seattle have played nine times since.
Perhaps Schefter believes the quarterback is still miffed that the Seahawks defeated Green Bay in the NFC Championship game in the 2014 season playoffs. But the Packers defeated Seattle in the playoffs in the 2019 season.
Schefter's opinion that the Seahawks should be a revenge game for the Steelers makes zero sense. Perhaps Schefter was referring to Pittsburgh being the new home for former Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf, and that is the reason for the "revenge" game, but that is not what Schefter says in his tweet, and Metcalf has no reason to take revenge on the Seahawks.
The opposite is true. The receiver was the one who wanted to break up with Seattle, and the team obliged and traded him. Perhaps Metcalf wanted to be paid more money than the Seahawks wanted to give him, but he did get paid by the Steelers after the move.
If anything, the Seahawks might want to take revenge on Metcalf for the receiver asking for a divorce.
But Schefter's tweet smacks of disrespect toward the Seahawks, as if Rodgers had some right to feel anger toward the Seahawks and would take his pound of flesh. The ESPN reporter's sentiment is ridiculous. No revenge on either side is needed, and thinking otherwise strains credibility.
