All through the spring, first-year Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy advised nearly anyone who would listen that he believes 2025 rookie Will Howard is “positively an actual prospect as a beginning quarterback.”
Throughout a Wednesday look on Pittsburgh sports activities radio station 93.7 The Fan, Steelers insider Mark Kaboly of “The Pat McAfee Present” shared a dark outlook relating to Howard’s standing with the workforce.
Steelers’ Will Howard hype “was slightly untimely?”
“I nonetheless assume the entire offseason, ‘I actually like Will Howard,’ was slightly untimely. I feel it was,” Kaboly defined, per Matthew Marczi of Steelers Depot.
A Steelers workforce that has 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers serving as its QB1 made promising prospect Drew Allar a third-round choose throughout the 2026 NFL Draft. Pittsburgh additionally reportedly is not occupied with shifting on from longtime backup Mason Rudolph as of the early days of the league’s summer season break.
Regardless of what has been stated and written over the previous couple of months, quite a few outsiders have speculated that the Steelers will not have 4 quarterbacks on their lively roster in September. Thus, Howard’s future with the group is understandably up within the air.
Win-now Steelers cannot afford to have an unproven QB2 behind Aaron Rodgers?
Bringing Rodgers again for an additional marketing campaign was amongst a number of all-in moves made by the Steelers this offseason. That has led Kaboly and different Steelers reporters to consider that McCarthy and Co. will need a confirmed commodity to enter the season as Rodgers’ main backup.
“I do not even know that if he has a flawless camp you retain him, as a result of they put a lot into this yr and I am simply not keen — or the group shouldn’t be keen — to simply go together with a man, a sixth-round choose, 185 total, who has no profession snaps…to perhaps get us via per week or two [if Rodgers goes down with an injury],” Kaboly added about Howard.
Kaboly did say that the Steelers may in the end attempt to stash Howard on the follow squad. For now, it seems that Howard will probably be given a possibility to compete with Rudolph for a roster spot via the top of the preseason.
