Everyone seems to want to pit the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Russell Wilson and Justin Fields against each other. Two starting quarterbacks, they are nominally competing for the job, yet nobody seems to buy it. Wilson will start, and Fields will be back up, and we’re supposed to be happy or mad about it. But maybe it’s all part of a larger picture aimed toward the good? That’s how Emmanuel Acho sees it.
“In any league, in any sport, … you always want to bring in competition”, he said on ESPN’s SPEAK program. “It’s not just like, ‘Okay, well this guy’s good, let’s not have anybody else’.