On Thursday, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg decided to stir the pot a bit with the Pittsburgh Steelers. During Get Up, he said that he believes that if the Steelers had known that it would only take a conditional sixth-round pick to trade for QB Justin Fields, they wouldn’t have signed Russell Wilson the week before. That naturally started a bit of a firestorm.
Now, I don’t think Greenberg was trying to say that the cost was so cheap on Fields that they didn’t want to spend the money on Wilson. That interpretation is wrong because neither option is costing the Steelers much at all in 2024.