If the Pittsburgh Steelers’ crimson zone woes proceed throughout this Sunday’s recreation on the 4-7 Cincinnati Bengals, may it immediate them to make a quarterback change?
For a chunk revealed Tuesday morning, Steelers insider Brooke Pryor of ESPN talked about how the 8-3 membership is ranked 30th in crimson zone landing share for the continuing season and the way former beginning quarterback Justin Fields “has a greater crimson zone QBR (92.2) and completion share (57.1%)” than what Russell Wilson posted (8.9 QBR, 34.6% completion share) over his first 5 begins.
Throughout Tuesday’s version of the “Final Cleveland Sports activities Present,” NFL reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala of CBS Sports activities instructed Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin is not married to holding Wilson his QB1 if the Steelers’ red-zone struggles persist.
“I believe it’s very throughout the realm of risk that Justin Fields goes again to being the Steelers starter,” Kinkhabwala defined, Alex Kozora of Steelers Depot shared. “This Steelers offense has numerous warts which have been form of coated up the previous couple of weeks due to Chris Boswell, their kicker, who’s as money as they arrive, and due to this protection. However they’ve been completely horrific within the crimson zone. Russell Wilson once again is taking horrible, horrible, horrible sacks.”
Fields went 4-2 as Pittsburgh’s starter whereas Wilson recovered from a lingering calf harm, however the one-time Tremendous Bowl champion then won his first 4 begins earlier than the Steelers suffered an upset 24-19 loss on the Cleveland Browns (3-8) final Thursday night time. Wilson alarmingly took 15 sacks over the previous 4 video games, 4 of which occurred in opposition to Cleveland.
“In case your quarterback continues to take actually, actually dangerous sacks,” Kinkhabwala stated, “you have to assess once more.”
Fields reportedly was by no means given “full command of the offense” throughout his time as Pittsburgh’s starter. Nonetheless, Kinkhabwala revealed that Steelers coaches believed the 25-year-old “was getting higher each single week” earlier than Tomlin went to Wilson.
“They have been capable of put increasingly on his desk each week,” Kinkhabwala added about Fields.
Tomlin’s dealing with of a fragile quarterback scenario will end result within the Steelers getting into December atop the AFC North standings. That stated, it feels like he may make one other change subsequent week if Wilson fails to provide a number of landing drives at Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium.
As of Tuesday afternoon, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Steelers as three-point underdogs in opposition to the Bengals.
