ss BREAKING NEWS: Packers’ Quay Walker Sparks Outrage After Admitting He “Wanted to Retaliate” Against Steelers Star — Fans Are Losing It Over What Really Went Down on the Field! The drama doesn’t stop there: insiders reveal a shocking twist that could change everything about this fierce rivalry…

Credit Packers linebacker Quay Walker. When he was a rookie first-round pick out of Georgia in 2022, he struggled badly to keep his emotions in check. Playing with intensity of focus was one of his strong suits, but Walker could not quite figure out how to turn off the intensity when he came off the field.

He was ejected from a game in October of his rookie year, for shoving a Bills practice-squad player. Then he was again ejected for pushing a Lions team doctor in the season finale, as the doctor was attempting to help an injured player. Two ejections in one year left Walker with a reputation as a hothead.

On Sunday, in the 35-25 win over the Steelers on “Sunday Night Football,” Walker could have let that old reputation bubble up again.

“Today, I had a test,” he said after the game.

Quay Walker: ‘I Matured a Whole Lot’

Walker has worked to keep himself in check as his career has gone on, though. And on Sunday night in Pittsburgh, that work was put to the test during multiple scrapes with the frustrated home team. At one point in the fourth quarter, Walker had his facemask grabbed by star receiver DK Metcalf.

Rather than shove Metcalf, though, Walker just held his ground and let the penalty flag fly in–a 15-yard unnecessary roughness on Metcalf, the Steelers’ second unnecessary roughness penalty in a three-minute span. Those two calls helped to squelch any chance for a fourth-quarter comeback.

That could have been different if Walker had fought back.

“DK grabbed my facemask. I wanted to retaliate,” Walker said on “The Speakeasy” podcast. “Everything just reflected to my rookie year when I got ejected and how I felt in that situation, how long I took to give myself grace from that last time I got kicked out. I was just like, I can’t do that no more. I matured a whole lot.

“It took everything in me. But I am happy I did what I did, I am happy I went about it that way. Grown man. I am maturing so I am happy for myself.”

Packers Benefit From Quay Walker Change

For Walker, it has been part of a very conscious process to both maintain his intensity and not hurt his team by pushing things too far.

“It’s so hard, man, because I gotta really tell myself when to come down,” Walker said. “Because when I am on the field, I really like, I am a whole different person, I go into a whole different mode. You know how it is, we run into grown men for an hour straight. I am a whole different person, it takes me a while to cool down.

“Even in between plays, I still be on that. Now, I tell myself to just chill, I go back to the sideline, meditate just to calm myself down.”

Packers Will Have Free-Agent Decision

So far so good for Walker, who is in the midst of a particularly important year. The Packers, of course, turned down the fifth-year option they held on Walker heading into the season, feeling that the price (almost $15 million) was too hefty. They could work out a lower-priced extension for Walker before he hits free agency in March.

It helps his cause that he is having his best season. Walker has been healthy, with four passes defended and 1.5 sacks in seven games.

NFL Analyst Says Aaron Rodgers’ Steelers are As ‘Loose & Outdated’ As the Jets

It was supposed to be a defining night for Aaron Rodgers. A reunion with the franchise that made him an icon was a chance to remind everyone he could still summon the old magic. For two quarters, it looked that way. Then, as the night unfolded, the game became a stark reflection of where Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers truly stand in 2025. They are efficient and respectable, but outpaced by a league that’s moved on.

The four-time MVP faced his former team, the Green Bay Packers, for the first time on Sunday night. Rodgers was sharp early, leading the Steelers to a 16–7 halftime lead behind a balanced offensive attack and three long-range field goals from Chris Boswell. But the Packers flipped the script in the second half.

Storming back for a 35–25 victory, they revealed a widening gap between an innovative Green Bay squad and an increasingly conservative Steelers operation.

NFL analyst Colin Cowherd weighed in on the loss, saying Rodgers’ new team looks alarmingly similar to the last one that frustrated him.

“Aaron’s been very good for the Steelers’ offense, and Green Bay made the smart move going with Jordan Love,” Cowherd said on The Herd. “I think Aaron now realizes what we said before he went to Pittsburgh: the Jets and the Steelers have the same issues. Defense first. One’s got better ownership, but Pittsburgh’s got issues too.”

Cowherd described both franchises as “loose and outdated”, suggesting they’re stuck in old-school mindsets that don’t fit the modern NFL.

“They’re not current,” he said. “Fourth and three? They punt or kick a field goal. Aaron’s doing all he can with a defensive coach and an old philosophy. The Steelers are just a better-run version of the Jets.”

Cowherd also emphasized that Rodgers isn’t the problem — if anything, he’s overperforming. The 41-year-old ranks second in the league in touchdown passes, completing 68% of his throws with a 104 passer rating and 16 total touchdowns through eight weeks.

“You’d take that a thousand times out of a thousand,” Cowherd said. “Aaron’s doing as much as a 41-year-old quarterback can.”

Rodgers finished 24 of 36 for 219 yards and two touchdowns, keeping the Steelers steady but unable to match Green Bay’s explosive second half.

The Packers, led by Rodgers’ successor Jordan Love, were a vision of what the future looks like. Love shredded Pittsburgh’s defense for 360 yards and three scores, completing 29 of 37 passes and connecting with 10 different receivers. At one point, he strung together 20 consecutive completions, displaying the decisiveness and creativity that Rodgers once trademarked in Green Bay.

Defensively, the contrast was even more striking. The Packers’ young, athletic unit, anchored by Micah Parsons, Quay Walker, and Xavier McKinney, overwhelmed Pittsburgh up front and swarmed to the ball. Parsons disrupted nearly every Steelers drive, generating pressure on more than half of Rodgers’ dropbacks. The Steelers’ aging offensive line struggled to protect, and their reliance on heavy sets and conservative play-calling left them predictable.