Justin Fields wouldn’t be here if Kenny Pickett wanted to be, yet he could start the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season opener. With starter Russell Wilson experiencing tightness in his injured calf, his status against the Falcons is unclear. Should the Steelers hold him out, however, Fields’ teammates believe he can carry them.
“Justin’s a guy that works a lot. We do a lot of things after practice to get our chemistry down with him”, Van Jefferson said of Fields, via Brian Batko of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “For the time that Russ was out and he was at camp, we all saw the way that he performed and how great he was out there in camp.