{"id":184966,"date":"2026-05-06T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:12:11","slug":"steelers-young-qb-race-already-has-clear-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184966\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Young QB Race Already Has Clear Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/10-23-2025-Steelers-Practice-7326-e1778016415392.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers QB Will Howard\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Will Howard at practice on Oct. 23, 2025. &#8212; Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers head into next season with a pair of young quarterbacks who are works in progress. <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/will-howard\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Howard<\/a>, a sixth-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, has a year\u2019s head start on Drew Allar, who was plucked last month in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports\u2019 Mike Renner doesn\u2019t think Allar and Howard possess the same level of talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was incredibly low on Howard,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/937theFan\/status\/2051723753382400329?s=20\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Renner said<\/a> Tuesday on 93.7 The Fan. \u201cI don\u2019t even think it\u2019s close (as compared to Allar). I thought Howard was a backup at best. He was just very robotic. He did not have the fluid athleticism of a Drew Allar. I saw a guy who was, I thought, was gonna struggle with out-of-structure stuff at the NFL level, and just creating anything out of tight pockets, either. So I was not a Will Howard guy. I was truthfully surprised with where the Steelers even picked him last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC02678-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers 2026 NFL Draft Penn State QB Drew Allar\" class=\"wp-image-168656\"  \/>Penn State quarterback Drew Allar in a game against Villanova on Sept. 13, 2025. \u2014 Matthew Lynch \/ Nittany Sports Now<\/p>\n<p>Allar, a Penn State product, has tools that the Steelers\u2019 coaching staff is excited about. He stands 6-foot-5 and has the requisite arm strength to succeed at the professional level. McCarthy has previously tutored Dak Prescott, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre and Aaron Brooks. Allar will be another case study of the coach\u2019s ability to mold signal-callers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the Allar pick was a worthwhile swing,\u201d Renner said. \u201cAllar, I think, if you would\u2019ve said that this guy was a third-round pick as a sophomore after what he did that year, you just would\u2019ve been surprised. If (you said) that\u2019s how he would\u2019ve ended his career, I think a lot of people would\u2019ve been surprised by that, because he was on a much higher trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/drew-allar\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Allar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/will-howard\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Will Howard<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers News Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Will Howard at practice on Oct. 23, 2025. &#8212; Ed Thompson \/ Steelers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60466,73,75,74,1833,1829,39813],"class_list":["post-184966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-drew-allar","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers","tag-will-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}