Zach Frazier Strongly Reacts to Botched Snaps With Aaron Rodgers in Camp

As the saying goes, accountability is the first step toward fixing any problem. Pittsburgh Steelers center Zach Frazier had plenty of accountability while addressing the botched snaps he has had with quarterback Aaron Rodgers early in the team’s training camp.

“Just can’t do it,” Frazier said of his one inaccurate snap after Saturday’s practice, via TribeLive.com’s Joe Rutter. “The rest were fine. That’s two days in a row. I’ll get it fixed.

“You can’t have it, obviously. It’s not something I normally have a problem with. It will be fixed.”

As Frazier explained, he only had one inaccurate snap during Saturday’s session. But it was the second consecutive day the center missed Rodgers with a snap.

“Second-year center Zach Frazier began the ‘seven shots’ session Saturday with a low snap that skipped past quarterback Aaron Rodgers,” Rutter wrote. “It was reminiscent of the previous day when Frazier sent his first snap sailing past the 41-year-old quarterback.”

Steelers’ Zach Frazier Working With Another Different QB

Frazier left little doubt that his inaccurate snaps were his fault and his responsibility to fix. Center and quarterback chemistry, though, can have an impact on a center’s snapping ability.

Frazier and Rodgers haven’t had a lot of time to develop chemistry. During his rookie season last year, Frazier snapped to Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. For a large portion of the offseason workouts this past spring, Frazier snapped to Mason Rudolph.

“It’s different [snapping to other quarterbacks],” Frazier said, via Rutter. “Just the past couple days is really the first work we’ve gotten with him.”

Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin didn’t sound overly concerned about Frazier’s missed snaps this past week. The regular season is still six weeks away.

“We’ll never like it, but we’ll get through it. It will be something that will be in our rearview mirror,” said Tomlin.

Missed Snaps Were a Storyline Before Frazier’s Arrival in Pittsburgh

Frazier’s misfires to begin 2025 training camp might be a bigger storyline in Pittsburgh because of the franchise’s recent play at center.

As a rookie in 2024, Frazier was a fine snapper and center overall. But poor snaps have been part of the team’s recent history.

In 2022, the Steelers signed veteran Mason Cole. The veteran regularly had bad exchanges with Pittsburgh quarterbacks during 2022 and 2023.

It bogged down a Steelers offense, which at the time, was not explosive enough to overcome significant losses in yardage.

Prior to Cole, Maurkice Pouncey would sometimes have inaccurate snaps. On the first play from scrimmage of an AFC wild card matchup versus the Cleveland Browns during January 2021, a Pouncey snap sailed over Ben Roethlisberger’s head and bounced several more yards into the end zone.

The Browns recovered the loose ball for a touchdown six seconds into the playoff contest. The Steelers played from behind during that entire postseason game and lost at home in embarrassing fashion to their rival 48-37.

That disaster is unrelated to anything Frazier has done at training camp this summer. But it highlights how important snapping and the quarterback-center exchange is in the NFL.