PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers took his time before deciding he wanted to come back for a 22nd season of professional football.
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback already has made up his mind about a 23rd: There won’t be one.
“This is it,” Rodgers said Wednesday, when the four-time NFL MVP was asked if this would be his final year competing in the league.
The 42-year-old did not expand on why he came to that conclusion. Maybe because there was no need.
Rodgers acknowledged that he thought his time in Pittsburgh — and perhaps the league — was over when Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stepped down in January, the day after the team’s blowout loss to the Houston Texans in the wild-card round of the playoffs.