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Aaron Rodgers is heading back to Pittsburgh. The four-time MVP is set to sign a one-year deal with the Steelers worth up to twenty-five million dollars, with twenty-two million guaranteed and another three million available in incentives. It's official — Rodgers is a Steeler for two thousand twenty six.
And that decision creates an immediate headache in the Steel City. Mike McCarthy now has four quarterbacks on his roster and typically carries three into Week One, which means somebody's walking out the door. Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, and Mason Rudolph were already in the room — now Rodgers walks in and reshuffles the whole deck. McCarthy has some decisions to make.
Shifting to the diamond, Gerrit Cole is making a serious case that he's back. The Yankees ace hit ninety-nine point six miles per hour on his four-seam fastball during a Triple-A rehab start, throwing eighty-six pitches in what's expected to be his second-to-last tune-up before returning to the big league rotation. That's not a guy easing back in — that's a guy arriving.
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