Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers, Jaire Alexander released, and more from OTAs
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The league's most faux-uncertain quarterback question finally got its long-expected answer last week when Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers officially agreed to terms on a one-year contract. That's where Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen begin their roundup of all the news that dropped during OTAs on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss Frank Ragnow's retirement, the Packers' release of Jaire Alexander, Anthony Richardson's shoulder injury, Mike Macdonald's incredulity, and a whole lot more.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:33 Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers
15:13 Packers release Jaire Alexander
23:34 Jalen Ramsey trade still hanging out there
26:54 Frank Ragnow retires
36:54 Terry McLaurin's frustrated with his contract status
39:44 Anthony Richardson sidelined for minicamp with shoulder injury
45:51 Bryce Huff traded to 49ers
49:34 Nick Chubb signs with Texans
51:06 Rashod Bateman signs extension with Ravens
54:17 Jonnu Smith trade chatter
55:39 Saints OL shakeup
58:30 Ricky Pearsall and Joey Bosa out until training camp with injuries
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.3 | It is nice to be back. |
| 0:07.7 | I sincerely appreciate everybody picking out the slack while I was gone. |
| 0:11.5 | Derek, Mike Sando, Jake Seeley, Michael Beller. |
| 0:14.4 | Really fun to have Deontay Lee back on the show. |
| 0:17.1 | Got some much needed, much enjoyed time away with my wife. |
| 0:20.5 | So thank you very much to everybody who |
| 0:22.5 | was willing to kind of chip in and make that possible. But it's really good to be back with you guys. |
| 0:26.8 | I missed some stuff while I was gone. It was gone for about two weeks and plenty of things |
| 0:31.4 | happened. We are going to use today to scoop up all of those news items. Aaron Rogers, a couple trades that happened. Frank |
| 0:39.1 | and Ragnow retiring, some injury news that has trickled out over the last couple of days. |
| 0:43.6 | Derek joined me to hit all of that as we do a little bit of an OTA's news item reset. So let's get |
| 0:51.1 | to that conversation with Derek right now. |
| 0:58.8 | Thank you. reset. So let's get to that conversation with Derek right now. We are officially back. I am officially back here at the athletic football show after a very |
| 1:05.2 | nice vacation, a very nice break. But I'm very happy to be back. And I'm very happy to be joined by |
| 1:10.3 | my co-host here at the athletic football show. It's Derek Klaus and Derek, how are you doing, man? I'm doing happy to be back. And I'm very happy to be joined by my co-host here at the |
| 1:11.2 | Athletic Football Show. It's Derek, how are you doing, man? I'm doing great. It's good to have you back. I mean, you know, we had some fun, you know, where the kids were running the show here for a little bit. And it was great. But I mean, it's been at least two weeks since we've recorded a podcast together. So I'm pretty excited to get back into it. I am as well. You did a great job. |
| 1:11.4 | I went back and listened to the Deonté episode. This least two weeks since we've recorded a podcast together. So I'm pretty excited to get back into it. |
| 1:25.3 | I am as well. You did a great job. I went back and listened to the Deonté episode this morning. You're a natural. You took to it well. I appreciate you guys really holding it down while I was gone. You know, my wife and I, again, this job, you can really only travel one time of the year. and we like to get away for a little bit, and we had a phenomenal time. |
| 1:27.1 | We saw just a staggering amount of... you can really only travel one time of the year and we like to get away for a little bit and we had a |
| 1:44.6 | phenomenal time we saw just a staggering amount of spain i mean we went all around the country for like |
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