Aaron Rodgers had a tumultuous run in New York, beginning with an untimely Achilles injury in his first game with the team, ending in his release at the end of the season, and highlighted along the way by multiple controversial public comments and several ill-advised trades and signings he swears he didn't tell the team to make.

So when new Steelers cornerback Brandin Echols, who played the last two seasons with the Jets and Rodgers, was asked this week if he was recruiting Rodgers to Pittsburgh, Echols didn’t hesitate. “Hell yeah,” Echols told reporters at his introductory news conference in Pittsburgh. “Tell his ass come on.”