The Pittsburgh Steelers are poised to begin Organized Team Activities (OTAs), but Aaron Rodgers might not be there.It’s mid-May, and the veteran quarterback still hasn’t confirmed if he’s coming back for one more NFL season.Rodgers has not yet confirmed if he’ll return to the Steelers in 2026GettyThe expectation, of course, is that Rodgers will indeed return to the Steel City after leading the team to the playoffs last time around.Should he make his comeback, he’ll also reunite with Mike McCarthy, the head coach he worked with for 12 years while with the Green Bay Packers.The pair won a Super Bowl together, and will hope to run it back one last time in Pittsburgh in 2026.But while Rodgers continues to delay any announcement on his future, McCarthy and his coaching staff have their eye on a different quarterback.Pittsburgh ‘uninstalling’ everything Drew Allar has learned as QBThe Steelers drafted Drew Allar in the third-round of this year’s draft, and have already started shaping the former Penn State star into an NFL signal caller.To do that, they’ve decided to break him down and build him back up from scratch.“They’re essentially uninstalling everything he has learned, and they’re re-uploading their own methods, fundamentals, and mechanics with Allar,” ESPN’s Brooke Pryor wrote Wednesday, in a piece detailing how the team is ‘coaching up’ Allar.“I watched Mike McCarthy and QB coach Tom Arth be very intentional with Allar, who was running at about half speed, working on his footwork throughout that practice.”Pryor added that the rookie got ‘undivided attention from Arth and significant instruction from McCarthy’ during minicamp, and that Steelers staff have been able to ‘hone in on reestablishing Allar’s foundation.’Mason Rudolph and Will Howard are expected to join McCarthy’s quarterback school in the coming weeks.The Steelers have been coaching up Allar in minicampGetty“It’ll be great to have all three of those guys because there’s a tempo to it,” Pittsburgh’s HC said, per Pryor’s report.“In the quarterback room, the relationship of the quarterbacks in that room, that’s important. They spend a lot of time together, so we have a lot of fundamental conversations that we need to get started.“But I think for a rookie to get the attention that he’s received since Thursday has been outstanding.”The hope is, of course, that there will be a fourth name leading McCarthy’s quarterback room in 2026 — Rodgers.But according to NFL insider Tom Pelissero, Pittsburgh won’t wait on the four-time MVP for much longer, and had expected to hear from him by the opening of OTAs on May 18.Steelers ‘patience’ for Aaron Rodgers running out“The target date was never the draft. It was not the start of free agency. It was really May 18 for Aaron Rogers. It was first day of OTAs,” Pelissero told The Rich Eisen Show Thursday.Rodgers is expected to reunite with McCarthy in PittsburghGetty“You want to max out the reps that you get on the field. This portion of the off season, it’s geared toward Will Howard, and more recently Drew Allar, in terms of the fundamental work that you get in phase one and phase two.“Phase three is where you have a little bit more of a competitive environment, where a lot more of the players are present… That’s where ideally, knowing how Mike McCarthy thinks, you’d want your starting quarterback to be there.”As it stands, the Steelers are unlikely to have Rodgers by the opening of OTAs, and if he does miss that initial target, then patience ‘may be tested.’Pelissero continued: “At some point, the patience is going to run out.Patience with Rodgers could soon run out, if he doesn’t appear at OTAsGetty“It certainly seems like the patience for Steelers fans, based on the feedback I get every time I talk about Aaron Rodgers, may already be running out for some people.“For (owner) Art Rooney II, for Mike McCarthy, who’s trying to get the team ready on the field, that patience may be tested.“I don’t believe that has happened yet. If they don’t have something in place by the start of next week, I think that we get there.”The 2026 NFL season is fast approaching, and if Rodgers wants to do McCarthy and the Steelers a big favor, he will be back in the building next week.Stay up to date with the NFL across all our talkSPORT platforms – subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest news, opinion, exclusive interviews and our daily unfiltered, unscripted show ‘The S* Word, from 8am ET