LATROBE, Pa. — After waking up with calf tightness Thursday morning, Russell Wilson was relegated to being a spectator in his first coaching camp observe with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 35-year-old quarterback alerted the teaching employees to the difficulty, and coach Mike Tomlin made the decision to carry Wilson out.
“Begins aren’t all the time ideally suited, however that is like life, man,” Tomlin mentioned after observe. “Russ wakened immediately, his calf was tight. It was my determination to take a seat him down immediately, create a bit of short-term discomfort for him, not permitting a small drawback to develop into an even bigger drawback.”
Tomlin characterised Wilson as “day-to-day” and added that Wilson wished to observe.
“He wished to — and he was most likely succesful — however I am attending to know him, and I simply selected to create a bit of distress for him and the offensive unit,” Tomlin mentioned.
With Wilson out, former Chicago Bears first-round decide Justin Fields took first-team reps for the primary time since being traded to the Steelers in March.
Fields was alerted to the elevation with a 6 a.m. textual content from the Steelers’ quarterback coach.
“He mentioned, ‘Be able to take some reps for the one immediately,'” Fields mentioned, including that he had been reviewing the playbook earlier than he went to mattress. “However’s good to face some short-term reminiscence, some adversity, and a few stuff that is not anticipated as a result of we will face issues in video games that are not anticipated. It is about how we react to these conditions and the way we modify.”
Although Fields took first-team reps in Wilson’s absence, Tomlin maintained in his Wednesday information convention that “nothing has modified” to Wilson’s “pole place” standing for the beginning job. Requested how he would handle reps between Wilson and Fields, Tomlin grinned and responded, “very fastidiously.”
“You guys assume I’ll truly paint myself right into a nook, so that you guys are going to ask me each day in regards to the rep allocations? No approach,” he added. “I have been on the job too lengthy for that.”
