Rookie sixth-round QB Will Howard has a challenging path ahead of him to ever start a game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it\u2019s important to take things one step at a time. The first step is trying to win his spot on the 53-man roster as the team\u2019s third quarterback on the depth chart. By the sound of it, he is already well on his way to checking that first box.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill Howard\u2026I thought on-field stuff, yeah, he looked somewhat poised,\u201d Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s Brian Batko said via 9.37 The Fan\u2019s Morning Show<\/a>. \u201cThe guy that first pops into my mind when I think of a rookie at Steelers training camp is Kenny Pickett\u2026He looked, I thought, more skittish, and maybe that was just [because] some of the guys in front of him were stocking shelves a couple months later. But I remember him looking like the game was moving pretty fast, and it wasn\u2019t like any of us, I don\u2019t think, were clamoring for him to move up the depth chart quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Will Howard, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be long before Skylar Thompson, all due respect to that young man, is in the rearview and Howard\u2019s working in there as the third quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n To be fair to Pickett, he was a first-round pick and naturally had more pressure on him. But that is one of the advantages that Howard has. He has absolutely zero pressure to ascend to the rank of starting quarterback in his first season behind Aaron Rodgers and Mason Rudolph. It has also been just one practice, and Howard has already experienced some ups and downs<\/a> throughout OTAs and minicamp in the spring.<\/p>\n According to our Alex Kozora<\/a>, who is on-site at camp, Howard was already splitting third-team reps evenly with Thompson. Rodgers and Rudolph each got 12 snaps while Howard and Thompson got six.<\/p>\n Yesterday, Will Howard & Skylar Thompson were co-No. 3 QBs. Rotated across the final four reps of each team period. <\/p>\n Howard would get first two, Thompson the next two, and vice versa. Total QB reps on Day 1 (team period). #Steelers<\/a><\/p>\n Rodgers: 12
Rudolph: 12
Howard: 6
Thompson: 6<\/p>\n