Aaron Rodgers recaps his experience at Steelers Training Camp

The Pittsburgh Steelers have been having a destination training camp at Saint Vincent College for a very long time, but that doesn’t mean every year there aren’t players who are finding the “dorm life” for the first time. Most of the time you have the rookie class, undrafted rookie free agents, and other free agent additions experiencing this type of camp for the first time.

But you don’t always have players with the resume of Aaron Rodgers enjoying the camp life for the first time. Tuesday, the last day of training camp for 2025, Rodgers spoke about his experience at Saint Vincent.

“Mike talks about it being things that you can’t measure. The connections that happened here, yesterday we had a home run derby here, and I was out in the hot sun just shagging shortstop for the most part. Ragging on Christian Kuntz for making a bunch of errors at the hot corner. It’s just those moments that you love. As much as I look forward to my bed and not having to worry about bed bugs at times. I’ll miss this experience, just because it’s really special to make this walk down the hill every day and see the fans in the crowd, even when it’s a hot day like today, it is pretty special.

“Having the times in the cafe with the guys. Finding different guys, getting to know, having lunch with and then the night-times over the dorms where you’re talking football, talking life, playing cards, whatever it is, playing video games. I forgot how to play video games, but I had to remember, just to connect with those guys. I’ll definitely miss those times.”

From all accounts it seems Rodgers was impressed with the Steelers camp experience, but that might have something to do with how impressed he has always been about Tomlin himself.

“I’ve always respected him. I’ve talked to guys that played for the Steelers over the years. Guys that we might have had after that, or friends around the league. It’s the stuff that you hear about is kind of the foundational stuff. Then you get to be here and see how he interacts in the meeting, how he leads it, how he’s on the practice field. Just his overall demeanor and confidence and swag is pretty special.”

The Steelers now turn their attention to their second week of preseason action in Week 2, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coming to town. But before that game Saturday night the Steelers and Buccaneers will have a joint practice Thursday at Acrisure Stadium. This scrimmage, more than the preseason game, is something Rodgers is looking forward to.

“Well, for the starters, because we don’t play in the preseason a lot of times. I think the thing you’re always hopeful for is there’s not a lot of fights. We went against Tampa a couple years ago, and they had some veteran guys, and it was pretty clean practice. Hoping for another clean practice with them, but it’s good to go against a different team. I think what I said was, now that I’m remembering, that you get a chance to go against non-vanilla defenses. So hopefully Todd , he probably won’t show everything, but we’ll do some stuff that stresses our protection and give us a chance to get some film to work on.”

Ultimately, Rodgers sees the offense taking positive strides as the team breaks camp, and is hopeful to get everyone back and clicking on all cylinders when the regular season rolls around.

“I think I’m playing a little bit better. I feel comfortable in the offense, and DK and I have been getting on the same page a little more frequently, which helps. We’ve had some injuries. Obviously, Calvin’s been out for a while, so we’d love to get him back, but it gives opportunities for other guys. I think Scotty , he’s done a really nice job, made a lot of plays for us. I think Roman is starting to feel confident in what he’s doing. I’d love the tight ends. I think you’re getting a lot of production out of those guys. Again, with Jonnu out, one guy I’d love to single out is, is Connor . I mean, Connor does the right thing every time. He’s a really smart football player, and the smartest players are the best players. So, he’s the kind of guy you feel really confident you can put him in there at any time and know he’s going to be on the same page.

Rodgers had a great experience, as many players have said when they are at Saint Vincent College, but can the offense turn that experience into points? And wins? We’ll find out soon enough.