PITTSBURGH -- The most influential person of the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2025 NFL draft wasn't sitting in the team war room. He wasn't even on the other end of any of the seven phone calls made by Mike Tomlin to his draftees over the three-day event.
Instead, he was elsewhere, perhaps at his Malibu home, sitting on his deck watching dolphins frolic in the Pacific. Or maybe in a dark cave pondering his future, or even at a Costa Rican retreat searching for clarity in holistic healing rituals.
Aaron Rodgers isn't a member of the Steelers, but the team assembled its 2025 draft class as if he soon would be.