The president of the Steelers, Art Rooney II, is registered that says that Your preference It would be that Pittsburgh sign Russell Wilson or Justin Fields again. At this point, the Steelers have not decided which Field Marshal to bring back for the 2025 season.
It is currently a divided decision internally, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. According to reports, Rooney prefers Wilson, while Chief coach Mike Tomlin would prefer to go with fields.
While steelers can now be divided, there will probably be a united front on the weekend, since the team’s brass currently meets to evaluate what happened in 2024 to start building the team next year. That includes discussions on which free agents to sign again and which will receive green light to test the open market. That obviously includes significant conversations with respect to the field marshal position and what should happen in the future.
In theory, Steelers could sign both the fields and Wilson, but Rooney essentially ruled out that scenario when he recently said that both players are considered headlines and that they would not want to revive last year’s situation. Then the Steelers will need to choose one.
You could present a case for both field marshal. Wilson won six of his first seven openings last season, including an air performance of 414 yards in the victory of Pittsburgh’s 13th week over the Bengals. He still throws a “moon” ball, and his intangible strengths felt during his season in Pittsburgh.
The negative aspects with respect to Wilson are his age (36), the fact that the Steelers lost their last five games with him in the center and that there was a clear absence of intermediate throws. According to the reports, Wilson also killed the heads with the offensive coordinator of the Steelers, Arthur Smith, who would surely prefer to have return fields in Pittsburgh.
Fields has much less experience than Wilson and has not yet gathered an extremely impressive season (although he had the second most prolific race season for a field marshal in the NFL’s history in 2022, his second season with the Bears). However, Fields was 4-2 as the Pittsburgh headline Marshal last season, scoring 10 total touchdowns and launching only one interception. Fields is also 10 years younger than Wilson.
While neither of them is a safe thing, it seems obvious that the fields is the best option and the field marshal that steelers need to prioritize the new firm before the manipulation period of NFL free agency begins March. Fields Will have some options If you choose to try the market, so if the steelers want to strengthen their chances of maintaining it, they will have to Submit an offer That is generous enough to force him to sign with them again instead of exploring free agency for the first time.
Given Wilson’s age, how it ended last season and the fact that he probably does not want According to your contract. However, if Pittsburgh goes that route, that does not resolve its long -term field marshal situation, which is another reason why steelers should prioritize the firm fields first before possibly circulating back to Wilson.
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Regardless of what they do, the fact that Steelers continue to be divided internally into their field Marshal situation is not a good thing. It is one of the reasons why Pittsburgh has and continues to be in this position since Ben Roethlisberger retired after the 2021 season.
According to the reports, the Steelers, torn in case or not to Roethlisberger for the 2021 season, did not have a succession plan in their place when he retired. They also had several false steps when it was their management of Kenny Pickett, who was changed despite winning 12 of his last 16 openings in Pittsburgh in games that ended.
If the last years have taught something from Pittsburgh, there must be a united front behind who is the team’s holder marshal, regardless of which player obtains the work.
