{"id":91,"date":"2024-09-14T02:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=91"},"modified":"2024-09-14T02:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T02:51:57","slug":"steelers-plan-to-start-justin-fields-beyond-week-2-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Steelers \u2018Plan to\u2019 Start Justin Fields Beyond Week 2: Insider.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Justin-Fields4-e1726266744947.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Justin-Fields4-e1726266744947.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Justin-Fields4-e1726266744947.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Justin-Fields4-e1726266744947.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Steelers QB Justin Fields.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"195\" data-dom-ready-time=\"388\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields will start at least two more games, according to a veteran reporter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0\u201cplan to have\u00a0Justin Fields\u00a0start the next two games\u201d according\u00a0to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette insider Gerry Dulac.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean Fields will start Sunday in Denver against\u00a0the Broncos,\u00a0as expected, but he will also lead the offense for the Week 3 home opener versus the\u00a0Los Angeles Chargers. Per Dulac, this cautious approach is so that veteran starter\u00a0Russell Wilson\u00a0is able to continue to rest his injured calf, \u201cso it doesn\u2019t morph into something worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as Dulac pointed out, this gameplan would open the door for more quarterback drama in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy that time, especially if the Steelers are 3-0 with Fields as their quarterback, the gossip, conjecture and narrative will increase to royal-tabloid measures,\u201d the Post-Gazette insider predicted, joking that \u201cthe Steelers quarterback room certainly gets its share of airtime with the national media.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Justin Fields Just Wants to Lead the Steelers to Wins During His Time as Starting QB<\/h2>\n<p>While\u00a0addressing the media\u00a0on Thursday, September 12, Fields remained humble \u2014 as he\u2019s been throughout this entire process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important,\u201d Fields responded when asked how \u201cimportant\u201d it is to take advantage of his time as the starter. \u201cMore important for the team than for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a job and that\u2019s to lead us to a win each and every week,\u201d the current QB1 went on. \u201cSo, we can have this debate on who\u2019s the starter, who\u2019s not the starter, but my main job is to go out there and help my team win the game. As long as I do that, I feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Fields also talked about how the offense can improve in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of stuff, I think us as an offense, I think there\u2019s a bunch of stuff to clean up,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cMe just being more accurate on my checkdowns so guys like\u00a0Najee [Harris]\u00a0and\u00a0Jaylen [Warren]\u00a0can catch the ball and get busy downfield\u2026 But I think there\u2019s just a bunch of stuff we can clean up. Minor things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields did add that the \u201cbiggest thing\u201d to correct is scoring more touchdowns and punching the ball into the end zone at the tail end of drives.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Russell Wilson\u2019s Injury Prevents Steelers From Getting Involved in Dolphins\u2019 Trade Conversations<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Fields fan, Dulac\u2019s update is great news as he\u2019ll get a lengthy audition as he attempts to impress head coach Mike Tomlin and offensive coordinator Arthur Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that the Steelers could be missing out on a trade opportunity.\u00a0Tua Tagovailoa\u2019s\u00a0latest head injury shook the\u00a0NFL\u00a0community on September 12, and it also created a domino effect of possibilities around the league.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa is expected to miss an extended period of time after suffering his\u00a0third diagnosed concussion. Some even believe he should retire altogether \u2014 although Tagovailoa has yet to comment on that subject himself.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the win-now\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0roster is without an established quarterback, and the Steelers just so happen to have three of them. Unfortunately, they\u2019ll need all three until Wilson returns from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Fields is the current starter, and even if he wasn\u2019t, there\u2019s a chance that Pittsburgh is still interested in investing in the 25-year-old long-term. Then there\u2019s Wilson, who\u2019d make a lot of sense as a trade candidate if he were actually healthy.<\/p>\n<p>But why would Miami trade for a 35-year-old signal-caller who could be one wrong step away from a serious calf or Achilles injury?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if Fields and Wilson were both healthy enough to play, the Steelers could even offer up\u00a0Kyle Allen\u00a0to compete with\u00a0Skylar Thompson\u00a0for the role in Miami. It\u2019s easy to forget that Allen has\u00a0started 19 games over the course of his six-year career.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, he\u2019s thrown for a completion percentage of 62.6 and a passer rating of 82.2. Both key metrics would be an improvement on Thompson, who\u2019s thrown for a 57.1 completion percentage and a 63.5 passer rating\u00a0in eight career regular season appearances\u00a0(two starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyPittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields will start at least two more games, according to a veteran reporter. The\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0\u201cplan to have\u00a0Justin Fields\u00a0start the next two games\u201d according\u00a0to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steelers \u2018Plan to\u2019 Start Justin Fields Beyond Week 2: Insider.. - Sport News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steelers \u2018Plan to\u2019 Start Justin Fields Beyond Week 2: Insider.. - Sport News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GettyPittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields will start at least two more games, according to a veteran reporter. 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