Russell Wilson is a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who has played in over 200 NFL games, but you wouldn’t know it from the reaction to Mike Tomlin starting Wilson over Justin Fields.
Fields, who was leading the league in throws short of the sticks at 72%, has had an unprecedented amount of online support since he was drafted. Many Steelers fans were unhappy with the change despite Pittsburgh’s offense throwing for under 140 yards in four of the first six games, the most such games in the NFL.
Here were some headlines before Wilson’s Steelers debut in Week 7:
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