The 2024 NFL season is still about three months away, but many Pittsburgh Steelers fans already have questions about the 2025 NFL season. More specifically, fans are wondering who the Steelers' QB will be in 2025 once the team’s 2024 NFL campaign plays out. It’ll be something that swirls around in their minds throughout the 2024 NFL season as PA online sports betting brands proudly feature the Steelers in their listings.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Justin Fields (left) and Russell Wilson (right).
For years, fans didn’t have to worry about who the Steelers' QB would be. Ben Roethlisberger was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft, and he spent 18 seasons under center for the team. But since Roethlisberger retired in 2022, the Steelers' QB chart has included Kenny Pickett, Mitchell Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph, and none have stood out.
For this reason, the Steelers chose to bring in not one, but two potential starting quarterbacks for the 2024 NFL season. The team signed Russell Wilson as soon as the NFL offseason started in March, and they orchestrated a trade with the Chicago Bears for Justin Fields a short time later. It provides them with two promising QB options, but it also creates confusion about which one will carry the torch for Pittsburgh in 2024 and beyond.
In recent days, reports have surfaced suggesting the Steelers only signed Wilson because they didn’t believe the team would be able to pull off a trade for Fields. But regardless of why they chose to bring both QBs in, the hope is the Pittsburgh QB room should be stronger this season than it was in 2023 with Pickett, Trubisky, and Rudolph trying to make Steelers QB history. The hope is also that Wilson or Fields will be the best Steelers QB 2025 has to offer.
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Steelers' Best Case Scenario
The best-case scenario for the Steelers might be for Wilson to start most or even all of the team’s games in 2024 while allowing Fields to sit behind him and learn. If Wilson’s 2023 season with the Denver Broncos is any indication, the 35-year-old QB doesn’t have much left in the tank. But he does have over a decade of NFL experience he could use to teach Fields.
This would, however, require Fields to take a back seat to Wilson for the time being. That might not be easy when you consider the 25-year-old QB was a top pick in the NFL Draft just three years ago. But Fields underperformed with the Bears and could presumably use the upcoming season to reset his career and get back to looking like a true NFL starting quarterback.
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Former Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields uses his legs to try and escape defenders during a professional football game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, PA.
If Wilson and Fields take this approach, it might not lead to the Steelers making a deep run in the NFL Playoffs this season, but it could put Fields in a position to be the long-term Steelers QB. It could also help the Steelers avoid getting stuck on the never-ending quarterback carousel that so many NFL teams end up on after a longtime starting QB retires.
