by: Nick Kosko 24 minutes ago nickkosko59
Aaron Rodgers was named one of the four team captains for the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of his first season with the team. Cameron Heyward , Miles Killebrew and TJ Watt were the other three.
This is a much anticipated season for Rodgers, given the disaster of the last two years with the New York Jets. On the surface, the future Hall of Fame QB seems refreshed, healthy and ready to guide the Steelers back to the postseason.
It’s been pretty standard for years now, but Rodgers did not see any preseason action for Pittsburgh this summer. He was reportedly working to ease concerns about potential “rust,” according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
“The plan is to rest him at least in preseason game action,” Fowler said SportsCenter in mid-August. “He is not playing this weekend. Next week against Carolina, he might sit, as well. Mike Tomlin could simply err on the side of caution here. He wants to preserve Rodgers for a 17-game season. He’s got a quarterback in his 40s, he knows he has to do that to some extent. But there are some questions about how much work Rodgers needs because he wasn’t around for the offseason program. You couple that with no preseason game action, he’s going into the season relatively rusty.