Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson is “in consideration” to start against the New York Jets on Sunday after demonstrating his health and “knocking the rust off” in practice last week, coach Mike Tomlin announced on Tuesday.
Wilson or Justin Fields would be his first pick for the starting quarterback, according to Tomlin, “closer to game time.”
“I got comfortable with his ability to display his health [last week],””… Now it’s about knocking the rust off. He is in consideration this week. We’ll see where that leads us, man. Both guys at the quarterback position are scheduled to work [Wednesday] and we’ll just walk it day by day. All geared toward putting ourselves in best position to win the football game.”
Tomlin hinted that both quarterbacks might be used in Sunday night’s game. Tomlin said : “Certainly there’s a scenario,”. “There could have been a scenario where that could have occurred last week.”
Is Russell Wilson ready to start ?
Fields made his sixth start of the season, and Wilson, 35, participated in the victory over the Las Vegas Raiders after completing a full week of practice for the first time since he aggravated his training camp injury on September 5. Tomlin said :
“He proved his ability to protect himself, to move appropriately within the pocket to not be limited schematically in terms of some of the things that we were capable of doing or wanted to do,” “Those things had to happen before we could seriously consider him and his talents, and that happened a week ago.”
During practice this week, Tomlin, who has kept Wilson as the starting quarterback on the depth chart for the entirety of the quarterback’s injury, was evasive about the precise strategy for the division of work. Mike further added on Wilson getting first team reps :
“I’m sure at some point,” “But I hadn’t decided who gets the ball first. That sort of minutiae has been undecided.”
With Fields as the starting quarterback, the Steelers are 4-2, including their victory over the Raiders on Sunday, in which he ran for two touchdowns. Fields has also completed a career-high 66.3% of his throw attempts and has five passing touchdowns to just one interception and one fumble.
In the victory over the Las Vegas Raiders, Fields recorded his sixth start of the season, and Wilson, 35, participated in a full week of practice for the first time since he aggravated his training camp injury on September 5.
