Steelers' Aaron Rodgers reacts to teammate's fan altercation, talks rise of negative interactions

Pittsburgh Steelers prima Aaron Rodgers opened up astir the altercation betwixt DK Metcalf and a Detroit Lions instrumentality connected Wednesday aft the wide receiver was suspended for 2 games.

Rodgers was talking to reporters and was asked whether a Lions instrumentality had ever heckled him oregon made him consciousness a peculiar mode implicit the years.

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Pittsburgh Steelers' Aaron Rodgers passes during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

"Probably, I mean, I don't person existent relationships with immoderate of those fans. Kind of by sight, there's ever a batch of antithetic things that are said, immoderate things that are benign, and immoderate things that aren't. I deliberation there's a mindset that you wage for a ticket, you accidental immoderate the heck you want. I deliberation determination should beryllium immoderate codification of conduct. Obviously, that was intentional, and I deliberation determination was immoderate solemnisation afterwards connected his part.

"Obviously, don't condone what DK [Metcalf] did. I understand, you know, there's been a batch of brainsick comments said my mode implicit the years. The information is that that would ne'er hap look to face. You know, adjacent immoderate of the radical that hatred maine the astir successful the cities that I've played against implicit the years, particularly successful the NFC North, it's ever beauteous cordial erstwhile you spot immoderate of those radical retired and about. But successful that setting, you know, there's a batch of things that are said. There's 2 sides to each story. And I enactment DK. I'll proceed to enactment DK. And this constituent that happened."

Rodgers said determination were respective factors arsenic to wherefore antagonistic instrumentality interactions person escalated implicit the years.

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Pittsburgh Steelers backmost Aaron Rodgers listens to a question during a quality league aft an NFL shot crippled against the Miami Dolphins successful Pittsburgh, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

He pointed to however phantasy football, sports gambling and societal media use, portion has immoderate good, has each accrued and travel retired of the shadows and into mean life.

"At the aforesaid time, arsenic you spot successful parts of nine erode, shall we say, possibly the behaviour has changed a small spot implicit the years," Rodgers said. "Now I'm each for bully trash speech and, you know, Dawg Pound (in Cleveland) they got a large instrumentality base. I emotion the banter with the fans. I was bantering with the instrumentality successful the stands the different day. He was yelling a clump of worldly astatine me, and his dependable cracked. I was teasing astir that, but there's a line, I deliberation there's a enactment that shouldn't beryllium crossed.

"You don't perceive a batch of that playing successful Lambeau implicit the years. Those are immoderate of the nicest fans you could perchance imagine. You're a visiting fan, you locomotion astir the Lombardi there, you find your mode into a tailgate. You astir apt person a brew successful your hand, possibly PBR and brat, not the aforesaid everyplace crossed the league."

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The Steelers volition beryllium without Metcalf for the remainder of the play arsenic Pittsburgh tries to clinch the AFC North.

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