The Steelers wrapped up minicamp Thursday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, marking the end of the offseason. As such, the next time Mike Tomlin, the coaching staff and players are all together, it'll be at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., with a full head of steam toward the 2025 season.

"Today concludes our offseason in an official way, but certainly there's more work to be done," Tomlin said following Thursday's practice. "That's the general messaging we left with the team. We just really laid a foundation through this work for 2025, teaching guys and establishing how we go about business, the things that we do to build our environment that creates a space where we all get better. We emphasized things like physical conditioning preceding anything else. Now they go off and continue along those same lines, skill development relative to their position and just getting ready for Latrobe."

Every year is different, but each year presents a new challenge. This time around, the Steelers are dealing with a heavy helping of roster turnover. It's a brand new quarterback room, led by Aaron Rodgers. Plenty of new faces at running back, with Jaylen Warren as the key mainstay in the room. DK Metcalf is now the No. 1 wide receiver instead of George Pickens. There are even a few new faces on the defensive side, including veterans such as Darius Slay and rookies such as Derrick Harmon, Jack Sawyer and Yahya Black.

Tomlin's never the type to let one season bleed into another. The group that started 10-3 then lost its five final games, culminating in a horrid loss to the Ravens in the playoffs, that group wasn't the one that took the field this week at minicamp. Roster turnover helps, but so does Tomlin's philosophy of treating each season as its own journey.

All of the work done throughout the offseason to get this team past a very disappointing 2024 season is now completely in the rearview mirror. And it's a process that Tomlin fully embraces.

"I don't view it as a challenge, to be quite honest with you. It's a pleasure, from my perspective," Tomlin said. "I love the multitasking associated with our roles this time of year -- talent acquisition, division of labor, development of schematics, player development, coaching, coaching staff development. I just love all the components of the get-better process."

The Steelers are in a good spot heading into this break of nearly six weeks until players report to training camp on July 23. The Xs and Os still have to work themselves out. Training camp will be the third time the 2025 playbooks will be installed. But, the Steelers have a clean bill of health as minicamp wrapped today, with no players having any injuries that are expected to keep them from being ready for training camp.

That's when the real work begins, and Tomlin plans for this year's training camp to be a challenge for his team. One thing he's done to make that happen is going back to having all practices at 1:55 p.m., except for the Friday Night Lights practice.

"It wasn't hot enough last year, to be quite honest with you," Tomlin said. "Heat aids in the development of physical conditioning. It makes it a more stressful environment, and that's what we go to camp for. We go to camp to get better, and if it's a little bit more miserable later in the day, man, that's what we want."

This week's minicamp was surely important. The playbooks get installed, and the daily process becomes more and more familiar to the in-season operation. That's why when the Steelers were going through the process of waiting on Rodgers, they wanted that to be wrapped up by minicamp.

All of that being said, it is simply a precursor to the main event: Training camp at Saint Vincent College.

"This was a football-like environment. When we get to Latrobe, it's going to be a football environment," Tomlin said. "There's a difference. We respect that. This work has been good, but we measure the quality of this work with how it tees us up for the real football journey that awaits. But I'm appreciative of the efforts, the participation and the energy brought. It was a good process."