On Tuesday, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin announced that barring any setbacks this week, Kenny Pickett would start at quarterback this weekend against the Las Vegas Raiders. We said when Pickett got his second concussion of the season two weeks ago that he shouldn’t play another snap this season and so this feels like a bad decision to us.
It also feels like a bad decision to former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger talked about it on his podcast Footballin’ and feels like it might be smart to shut down the team’s future franchise quarterback with two concussions rather than play him in three more meaningless games.
“I don’t ever give up. I don’t want to say ever ‘listen I’m done for the season’, but at some point, if you’re the franchise and you’re not gonna make it, you’re not going anywhere, it might be smart to shut him down,” Roethlisberger said. “If he’s your guy of the future, which obviously he is, maybe it’s smart to do that.”
Let us know in the comments if you want to see Pickett keep playing this year or not.
