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Ryan Clark Latest To Criticize Mike Tomlin’s QB Choice: ‘Wrong Decision’

Count Ryan Clark as the latest outsider to believe Mike Tomlin is making the wrong move by starting QB Russell Wilson this weekend against the New York Jets after Justin Fields helped lead Pittsburgh to a 4-2 start. While Clark noted the respect and usually lock-step viewpoint of Tomlin, he thinks this decision can only harm, not help.

“It’s the wrong decision to run back to Russell Wilson,” Clark said on Thursday’s edition of ESPN’s NFL Live. “And I don’t know why you have to run back so quickly to an uncertainty at the quarterback position if you’re Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers.