Against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, Russell Wilson turned back the clock. He led the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 44-38 victory in a shootout, something they haven’t been able to do in quite some time. Shockingly, they played the Bengals’ game and won. Rather than be a run-first team, the Steelers were much more willing to throw the ball. As a result, former NFL quarterback Matt Ryan has named Wilson as his quarterback of the week.
“Russ was cooking,” Ryan said recently on CBS’s Pushing the Pile. “I know he’s got the pick-six in that game, but that wasn’t on him, in my opinion.