Aaron Rodgers Already Serving to Will Howard – And The Rookie Is Returning The Favor

One in every of Aaron Rodgers’ roles with the Pittsburgh Steelers shall be to assist mentor rookie quarterback Will Howard. After simply three days of working collectively, Howard mentioned Rodgers has been an awesome mentor and helped make him higher. And as Rodgers, who signed with the crew final weekend, tries to stand up to hurry with Pittsburgh’s playbook and offense, he’s turned to Howard for some assist.

“He’s an awesome mentor, has already handled me with the utmost respect and simply been actually good to me. And a man like that, he doesn’t have to try this,” Howard mentioned Thursday through video posted by Steelers Stay on Twitter. “So I actually simply recognize him being prepared to take me beneath his wing a bit bit and provides me pointers and ideas right here and there. There’s already some issues he’s mentioned to me which have already helped me. So I’m simply excited to study as a lot as I can from that man and take the whole lot he says and put it within the financial institution.”

Howard talked about particularly that Rodgers has helped him along with his five-step drop, and the tweaks he made he may inform have been for the higher throughout follow at the moment.

“He informed me on my five-step drops, ‘hey don’t get too extensive on the highest of your drop, maintain your base a bit tighter simply so you’ll be able to generate extra power.’ And that was simply one thing he mentioned yesterday that already helped me out at the moment. On the market on the sector, I may inform, that was an impression for me.”

Howard mentioned on the primary day of crew conferences, he helped Rodgers study what the Steelers have added to their playbook.

“We discovered ourselves sitting subsequent to one another within the unit assembly, it was fairly cool, it was day one, and clearly there’s some new issues that we threw in, and he’s asking me, ‘hey what’s this once more?’ And I’m telling him, and I’m like, what’s going on proper now? That is loopy, I’m telling Aaron Rodgers.”

All through the course of the yr, there’s far more that Howard will be capable to study from Rodgers than vice versa. However Howard, who acquired an earlier begin with Pittsburgh’s playbook and on the sector with the Steelers forward of Rodgers, can assist him stand up to hurry with the playbook and study Pittsburgh’s offense.

With the hole between the tip of minicamp at the moment and coaching camp, Rodgers probably received’t want any assist understanding the ideas and determining the playbook. However via minicamp, Howard’s relationship with Rodgers has been mutually helpful and it’s one that would develop all year long.

It additionally exhibits lots that Rodgers isn’t wanting down on the gamers already within the constructing and is open to asking questions on what he doesn’t know but. He doesn’t have an perspective as a veteran quarterback who has completed lots within the league and received’t ask for assist, as he’s prepared to show to the rookie for assist studying issues he may not but with reference to Pittsburgh’s offense.

Rodgers signed only a one-year deal, and the 41-year-old quarterback may not have a couple of season left within the tank. Howard, whereas a sixth-round decide, may have the chance to compete for the Steelers’ beginning job down the road, and absorbing as a lot data from Rodgers and studying from the four-time MVP shall be necessary for his growth. Rodgers has already been providing Howard pointers, and the extra that continues and Howard can develop his recreation with Rodgers’ recommendation, the higher it is going to be for him within the quick and long run.

Rodgers mentioned in his introductory press convention he sat subsequent to Howard within the assembly room and goes to assist him out as a lot as he can. Howard mentioned he’s been encouraging any recommendation Rodgers may give him, and with a rookie prepared to study and a veteran prepared to dole out recommendation, Rodgers may wind up being the proper mentor.

It’s optimistic for the Steelers that Aaron Rodgers, though he simply acquired within the constructing, is already prepared to take the step and dole out recommendation, even for the little issues he sees with Will Howard, like his five-step drop, that would stand to enhance. Jordan Love credited Rodgers for being a very good mentor throughout his time in Inexperienced Bay, and Howard may discover himself having an identical expertise all year long along with his relationship with Pittsburgh’s beginning quarterback persevering with to develop.