Justin Fields came off the bench Sunday for a few plays against the Baltimore Ravens for the first time since Russell Wilson took back the starting quarterback role. All three plays were runs, and two of them were runs by Fields.
That doesn’t mean the Steelers view him exclusively as a runner or a gadget player in those packages.
“Obviously there’s a fine line to do it,” OC Arthur Smith said Tuesday via a video from TribLive’s Chris Adamski on X. “I don’t view Justin in this role as a gadget guy. I mean to me, we’ve got two starting quarterbacks and he’s a hell of a football player.