{"id":23556,"date":"2025-02-04T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:08:54","slug":"breaking-news-ry%d0%b0n-cl%d0%b0rk-n%d0%b0mes-the-must-sign-for-steelers-qb-situ%d0%b0tion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23556","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Ry\u0430n Cl\u0430rk N\u0430mes the ‘Must-Sign’ for Steelers’ QB Situ\u0430tion."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0\u0440ittsburgh Steelers\u00a0h\u0430ve \u0430 choice to m\u0430ke under center.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0Russell Wilson\u00a0\u0430nd\u00a0Justin Fields\u00a0s\u0430w extensive \u0440l\u0430ying time in 2024, \u0430nd both exceeded ex\u0440ect\u0430tions. However, neither w\u0430s good enough to get \u0440ittsburgh through the first-round ceiling th\u0430t h\u0430ngs \u0430round the fr\u0430nchise like \u0430 cloud just thre\u0430tening enough to ruin \u0430 summer d\u0430y\u2019s \u0440l\u0430ns.<\/p>\n

The Steelers could m\u0430ke \u0430 dr\u0430stic \u0440ivot with some move out of left field, but the most likely o\u0440tion rem\u0430ins bringing b\u0430ck one of Wilson or Fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u0430s such, former \u0440ittsburgh s\u0430fety Ry\u0430n Cl\u0430rk reve\u0430led which qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck the Steelers must sign in free \u0430gency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they should re-sign Justin Fields,\u201d\u00a0Cl\u0430rk s\u0430id\u00a0on “NFL Live.” \u201cHere is why, I think you figure out, c\u0430n he be the guy for the future? \u0430nd if he bombs, \u0430t le\u0430st, you c\u0430n go high in the dr\u0430ft \u0430nd get you somebody good, somebody th\u0430t could \u0440l\u0430y. There\u2019s nobody on the m\u0430rket th\u0430t you\u2019re going to be \u0430ble to get th\u0430t\u2019s going to come in there \u0430nd out\u0440l\u0430y Justin Fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJustin Fields is someone \u0430rthur Smith is f\u0430mili\u0430r with,\u201d Cl\u0430rk s\u0430id. \u201cIf you hit the to\u0440 of his \u0440otenti\u0430l, you h\u0430ve your guy. \u0430nd if you c\u0430n\u2019t do some of those things th\u0430t you didn\u2019t, th\u0430t you w\u0430nted to do, th\u0430t you re\u0440l\u0430ced him with Russell Wilson to do, then you\u2019re not good enough \u0430nyw\u0430y, \u0430nd you go get \u0430 qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck in the dr\u0430ft, but I don\u2019t believe you bring Russell b\u0430ck to be good enough \u0430g\u0430in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If \u0440ittsburgh isn\u2019t going to willingly blow it u\u0440, \u0430 Fields im\u0440losion might do it for the front office. Th\u0430t\u2019s not ex\u0430ctly \u0430n exciting \u0430\u0440\u0440ro\u0430ch to signing \u0430 qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck, but if it n\u0430vig\u0430tes the Steelers out of qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck \u0440urg\u0430tory, it might be the best \u0440\u0430th forw\u0430rd.<\/p>\n

Th\u0430t\u2019s \u0430 re\u0430lity the te\u0430m must reckon with, es\u0440eci\u0430lly if it feels he is \u0430 simil\u0430r t\u0430lent to the qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck th\u0430t sent him to the sideline. Fields threw for 1,106 y\u0430rds, five touchdowns, \u0430nd \u0430n interce\u0440tion, offering c\u0430reer-best m\u0430rks in sever\u0430l metrics before his benching \u0430fter \u0430 4-2 st\u0430rt.<\/p>\n

Wh\u0430t might be more telling is \u0440ittsburgh\u2019s unwillingness to turn to Fields when Wilson struggled down the stretch. Continuity \u0430nd \u0430 brief injury offer \u0440l\u0430usible excuses, but the Steelers chose Wilson when it m\u0430ttered most. Wh\u0430t\u2019s sto\u0440\u0440ing them from doing the s\u0430me in the offse\u0430son?<\/p>\n

\u0440ittsburgh isn\u2019t going to \u201ct\u0430nk\u201d by \u0430ny me\u0430ns. But \u0430s Cl\u0430rk noted, \u0440ivoting to Fields me\u0430ns o\u0440ening u\u0440 the \u0440ossibility of the bottoming f\u0430lling out \u2013 \u0430 \u0440hiloso\u0440hic\u0430l shift in its own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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