Steelers preseason Game 1: what to expect from Will Howard and Drew Allar

I don't think he is.

I really don't.

So, you know, we heard from Aaron Rodgers earlier this year.

My colleague at The Athletic, Mike Silver, wrote that Aaron Rodgers was surprisingly going to play in this preseason.

And I think they said 30 to 40 snaps was what they initially were targeting.

But when we talked with Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday, it did not sound like he was someone that wanted to play in these preseason games.

No, and I feel like he echoed kind of what he said last year when we were talking about this.

He was very quick to say it's the preseason.

It's not real football.

And he seemed to feel like there's not a lot of value for him playing in the preseason because teams aren't showing you everything they're showing.

It could be very simplistic looks.

And I was I had deja vu because I feel like that was exactly what he said when we talked with him last year about playing in the preseason and.

partaking the preseason.

And it was interesting because Mike McCarthy, you know, had a little bit of the flip side.

We talked to him ahead of practice on Tuesday and kind of basically was like, well, he's the quarterback.

Of course he's going to want to play.

I've never had a quarterback that didn't want to play.

Brett Favre wanted to play.

So the dynamic there, I think, was a little bit interesting.

And Mike McCarthy obviously said, ultimately, it's going to be his decision.

But I think we're going to see a lot of Mason Rudolph, a lot of Will Howard, and a lot of Drew Aller, as we should for evaluation purposes.

Maybe Aaron Rodgers gets some snaps in the Jets game and then in the Bills game.

Maybe that's where we see him.

But I'm with you on that.

I don't know if we're going to see him take the field Thursday night against the Packers as much as fans might want that with the storylines.