The Steelers must practice patience with the quarterback position

The Pittsburgh Steelers were busy on Friday with roster moves as well as having a meeting with former Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson. The Wilson news has fans chomping at the bit for the Steelers to make a move and sign Wilson to be the team’s starting quarterback in 2024.

And all we have to say is Pittsburgh needs to practice a little patience with the quarterback position this offseason. The last time the Steelers were at a crossroads at the quarterback position was in 2022. Ben Roethlisberger retired and the Steelers had absolutely no contingency play on the roster.

So what do they do? They sign veteran Mitch Trubisky on the first day of free agency and then drafted Kenny Pickett as the first quarterback off the board in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. A draft where almost all of the top quarterbacks taken weren’t in the first round (Pickett the only one) and most of them have turned out to be busts.

Fast forward to now and Trubisky proved to be a bust and is now a backup with the Buffalo Bills and Pickett’s poor play is why we are even talking about Wilson.

This isn’t to say the Steelers shouldn’t sign Wilson. But if we learned anything from 2022, getting impatient doesn’t work. There are several interesting veteran quarterback prospects out there and we hope that the Steelers at least do their work on all of them and don’t get tunnel vision for Wilson and perhaps miss out on a better opportunity.