The 21st and most likely the final regular season of Aaron Rodgers’ career is officially underway, and there’s a slew of records on the table for both him and his head coach, Mike Tomlin. The Pittsburgh Steelers, a bastion of football history, have a couple of more opportunities to add to their rich existence. All thanks to Rodgers.
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The former Super Bowl champion has 63,399 career passing yards, which is the seventh most by any quarterback in NFL history. Heading into his Week 3 matchup against the New England Patriots, Rodgers needs just 42 passing yards to break Philip Rivers’ record to become the sixth all-time leader in passing yards.
With a current average of 223.5 passing yards per game, Rodgers is on track to finish this season with 3,800 passing yards. If he manages that, he would reach a career total of 67,199, which would be enough to dethrone Ben Roethlisberger for the fifth overall spot in the all-time rankings, all while wearing a Pittsburgh uniform.
Then there’s Tomlin, the perpetually winning head coach. Thanks to a Week 1 win against the New York Jets, the 53-year-old veteran now has 184 career wins as a head coach, the 12th most in NFL history.
Tomlin is just two wins shy of Chuck Knox’s career total. Assuming that he’s able to maintain his career-long streak of winning seasons, Tomlin will finish the 2025 regular season with no less than 193 victories.
That would put Tomlin in a tie with the second-to-last head coach of the Steelers, Chuck Noll. It would also see him become a top-10 head coach in terms of wins. Anything less, however, and Tomlin will have to wait until 2026 before he can begin to match his predecessor.
The Steelers hit a bit of a road bump in Week 2, losing 31-17 to the Seattle Seahawks, who are anything but world beaters. The franchise, however, will be more concerned about another record of theirs that they want to change.
Pittsburgh pursued Rodgers simply for the fact that they are hoping to end their postseason drought as soon as possible. The franchise hasn’t won a playoff game since 2016, even though they’ve managed to reach the postseason five times since then.
Unfortunately for them, things haven’t gotten any easier. Patrick Mahomes is still present, the Baltimore Ravens look as strong as ever, and Josh Allen is taking the league by storm right now.
If Rodgers and Co. want to find their first playoff win together, then they’ll need to improve upon the form that they showed in Week 1. Otherwise, this potentially historic campaign will go out with a whimper rather than the sound of broken records.
