Three-time Super Bowl champ and present NFL expert Mark Schlereth has actually left little doubt over the previous numerous months that he’s no fan of present Pittsburgh Steelers beginning quarterback Russell Wilson.
That does not suggest Schlereth thinks 25-year-old Justin Fields would end up being a discovery with the Steelers if he began more video games than Wilson before Week 18 of the upcoming season concludes.
“This is a one-and-done competitors with the Steelers,” Schlereth stated about Pittsburgh’s quarterback scenario throughout a Wednesday look on the FS1 “Breakfast Ball” program, as shared by Ross McCorkle of Steelers Depot. “They’ll proceed from these 2 guys next year.”
Neither Wilson nor Fields is signed beyond the 2024 project, and both left plenty to be preferred from the start of training-camp practices through Pittsburgh’s preseason ending at the Detroit Lions this previous weekend.
Some believed Fields entered into that match with a genuine possibility to win the beginning gig, however The Athletic’s Mike DeFabo explained that the truth that head coach Mike Tomlin “selected to pull Wilson after a single series (versus Detroit) would appear to show he had actually seen enough– which Wilson is his quarterback.”
Per Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk, Tomlin validated on Wednesday afternoon that Wilson will begin Pittsburgh’s Week 1 video game at the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 8.
Tomlin notoriously has actually never ever sustained a losing season given that he accepted the Pittsburgh task in 2007. Schlereth believes that streak will pertain to an end since of who remains in the club’s quarterback space integrated with the state of an offending line that produced unstable efficiencies throughout 3 preseason video games.
… When you have 2 fighting and 2 guys that are suspect with taking sacks and a few of the other things they do on a daily basis at the quarterback position, you do not have a possibility,” Schlereth stated about Wilson and Fields.
Particularly, StatMuse reveals that Wilson took the most regular-season sacks (100) amongst NFL quarterbacks throughout the previous 2 projects. Fields took the second-most sacks (99) while with the Chicago Bears over that very same duration.
Since Wednesday afternoon, DraftKings Sportsbook had the Steelers at +120 wagering chances to win over 8.5 video games for the upcoming season.
Such projections reveal Schlereth isn’t the only notable member of the NFL neighborhood who thinks Tomlin will experience his very first losing project as an NFL head coach after he called the winner of what Schlereth described as “among the worst QB competitors of perpetuity.”